Sack of Rome by the Visigoths
Alaric sacks Rome, the first foreign capture in 800 years
The Visigoths under Alaric captured Rome and plundered it for three days — the first time in almost 800 years that the city fell to a foreign enemy. The shock was immense and moved Augustine to write The City of God.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- c. 405 Mesrop Mashtots creates the Armenian alphabet — 5 years earlier
Asia
- c. 427 Founding of Nalanda — 17 years later
Americas
- c. 431 Ilopango eruption — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Augustine of Hippo (aged 56)
- Attila (aged 4)
- Hypatia (aged 50)