Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
451 · Event
Coalition under Aetius defeats Attila the Hun in Gaul; one of the last great Western Roman field victories.
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- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
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- Hagia Sophia completed (537)
- Council of Chalcedon (451)