Pontificate of Leo the Great
440–461 · Event
The first pope called 'the Great': his Tome settles the nature of Christ at Chalcedon, and his claim that Peter speaks through Rome's bishop becomes the papacy's charter.
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- Avignon Papacy (1309)
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- Papal States established (756)
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- Gregorian Reform (1075)
- Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
- Pontificate of Pius IX (1846)
Around 440
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Christianity becomes Roman state religion (380)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Hagia Sophia completed (537)
- Council of Chalcedon (451)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)