Throughout their raids on the Eastern Roman Empire, the Huns had maintained good relations with the Western Empire, this was due in no small part to their friendship with Flavius Aetius, a powerful Roman general ( sometimes even referred to as the de facto ruler of the Western Empire ) who had spent some time with the Huns.

* 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' battles Attila the Hun.

* 454 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( b. 396 )

* Flavius Aetius is sent as a child hostage at the court of Alaric I, king of the Visigoths.

* Battle of Ravenna: Roman forces under command of Flavius Aetius are defeated near Rimini ( Italy ).

* Flavius Aetius gains appointment as master of both services ( magister utriusque militiae ) after gaining victories in Gaul over Visigoth and Frankish forces.

* Flavius Felix, his wife and a deacon are accused of plotting against Aetius.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), fights a campaign in Rhaetia ( Switzerland ) and Noricum ( Austria ).

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), starts a 10-year campaign against the Visigoths in southern Gaul.

Flavius Aetius ( magister militum ) is unable to raise a new army against him.

After learning of the Hun invasion, Flavius Aetius ( magister militum ) moves quickly from Italy into Gaul, and joined forces with the Visigoth king Theodoric I.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), returns as triumphator back to Rome after several years ' fighting the Burgundians and Visigoths in Gaul.

* Gaudentius, son of Flavius Aetius ( approximate date )

* Attila, age 12, is sent as child hostage to the court at Rome and in return, the Romans sent Flavius Aetius to the Huns.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), arrives in southern Gaul with an army ( 40, 000 men ) and defeats the Visigoths under king Theodoric I who besiege the strategic city of Arles.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), in the service of emperor Valentinian III, holds power in Rome for twenty years.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), attended to put an end to Burgundian raids in Gaul.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), lays siege at Toulouse.

They begin to move from the Upper Rhine and Flavius Aetius, commander-in-chief ( magister militum ), gives them land in the Geneva area ( Maxima Sequanorum ).

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ) ( approximate date )

* September 21 – Emperor Valentinian III stabs his commander-in-chief Flavius Aetius to death during a meeting of the imperial council at Ravenna.

* September 21 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum )

* March 16 – Emperor Valentinian III, age 35, is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers of the late Flavius Aetius, ending the Theodosian Dynasty.

Among the supporters are Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ).

In 401 Alaric invaded Italy, but he was defeated by the Roman half-Vandal general Flavius Stilicho at Pollentia ( modern Pollenza ) on April 6, 402.

In 408, Western Emperor Flavius Honorius ordered the execution of Stilicho and his family, and incited the Roman population to massacre tens of thousands of wives and children of Goths serving in the Roman military.

A similar story is reported by Flavius Josephus during the siege of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 AD ( see Mary of Bethezuba ), and the population of Numantia during the Roman Siege of Numantia in the 2nd century BC was reduced to cannibalism and suicide.

The Roman Empire had difficulty responding to all the barbarian raids, and Flavius Aëtius had to use these tribes against each other in order to maintain some Roman control.

* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

The Testimonium Flavianum ( meaning the testimony of Flavius < nowiki ></ nowiki >) is the name given to the passage found in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities in which Josephus describes the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of the Roman authorities.

Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

Flavius Josephus fully defected to the Roman side and was granted Roman citizenship, and became an advisor and friend of Vespasian's son Titus.

The Romans ( commanded by Flavius Vespasian and his son Titus, both subsequently Roman emperors ) asked the group to surrender, but they refused.

In 71, he went to Rome in the entourage of Titus, becoming a Roman citizen and client of the ruling Flavian dynasty ( hence he is often referred to as Flavius Josephus — see below ).

Although he uses " Josephus ", he appears to have taken the Roman praenomen Titus and nomen Flavius from his patrons.

In 72, the Roman governor of Iudaea Lucius Flavius Silva headed the Roman legion X Fretensis and laid siege to Masada.

* 51 – Titus Flavius Domitianus, Roman Emperor ( d. 96 )

Traditionally, the origins of Roman legal science are connected to Gnaeus Flavius.

The first written references to an ancient Celtic sighthound, the " vertragus ", in the " Cynegeticus " of Flavius Arrianus ( Arrian ), Roman proconsul of Baetica in the second century, may refer to the Galgo, or more likely to its antecedant.

During this period he married Flavia Domitilla, the daughter of Flavius Liberalis from Ferentium and the mistress of Statilius Capella, a Roman knight.

* Titus Flavius Vespasianus, Roman Emperor ( Vespasian, 69 — 79 )