When did the Roman Empire fall? (TRIH ep 156)
476 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook debate when — and whether — the Roman Empire actually fell, arguing that no single date adequately captures the Empire's complex decline. They begin with Edward Gibbon’s landmark work and move through candidate dates: Augustus’s establishment of the imperial system, the foundation of Constantinople (330), Constantine and the Christianization of the Empire, Theodosius’s death and the east/west division (395), the Battle of Adrianople (378), the sack of Rome by...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 476
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Muhammad (570)
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476)
- Sack of Rome by Visigoths (410)
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Christianity becomes Roman state religion (380)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)