In 400, the Visigoths invaded the Western Roman Empire and, although briefly forced back from Italy, in 410 they were able to sack the city of Rome.

In early 402 AD the Visigoths had invaded northern Italy and were advancing on Mediolanum ( modern Milan ) which was the imperial capital at that time.

The Visigoths invaded the country in 435 at a time when Flavius Aétius, the Roman senator, was busy repressing the Bagaudes, some brigands from Gaul.

The Mediterranean coast of Languedoc was settled by the Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans, and invaded by the Alamanni, Vandals, Visigoths ( Septimania ), and Saracens.

Avitus had a good relationship with the Visigoths, in particular with their king Theodoric II, who was a friend of his and who acclaimed Avitus Emperor, but the possibility of a strong and useful alliance between Visigoths and Romans ended when Theodoric invaded Roman Hispania and then refused to help Avitus against the rebel Roman generals who deposed him.

When the Suebi invaded the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis, the Visigoths attacked and defeated them 5 October 456 at the Campus Paramus, twelve miles from Astorga, on the banks of the Órbigo ( Urbicus ), subsequently occupying the province as nominal foederati of the Empire.

so the Huns, the Visigoths, and before them the Aryans, had invaded India, Iran, Europe.

Greece faced invasions from the Heruli, Goths, and Vandals during the reign of Theodosius I. Stilicho, who acted as regent for Arcadius, evacuated Thessaly when the Visigoths invaded in the late 4th century.

In 400 CE, the Visigoths invaded Iberia ( modern Spain and Portugal, then known as Hispania ) and the dogs found their homeland.

so the Huns, the Visigoths, and before them the Aryans, had invaded India, Iran, Europe.

* The second war with the Visigoths, led by king Alaric, in which they raided Greece, and then invaded Italy, culminating in the sack of Rome ( 410 ).

Italy was invaded by the Visigoths in the 5th century, and Rome was sacked by Alaric in 410.

Later the Visigoths and Arabs invaded, creating an uninhabited desert of the region, while concentrating their administration in the province of Zamora.

Respendial's fate is unknown ; by 426, he had been succeeded by Attaces, who was killed when the Visigoths invaded Hispania.

During the Migration Period, Mértola was invaded by Germanic tribes of the Sueves and the Visigoths.

Stilicho, who acted as regent for Arcadius, evacuated Thessaly when the Visigoths invaded in the late 4th century.

In the early Middle Ages, Amfissa was devastated by several foreign peoples who invaded Greece, like the Visigoths under Alaric I and the Huns.

At first Honorius based his capital in Mediolanum, but when the Visigoths under King Alaric I entered Italy in 401 he moved his capital to the coastal city of Ravenna, which was protected by a ring of marshes and strong fortifications.

The language was in decline by the mid-6th century, due in part to the military defeat of the Goths at the hands of the Franks, the elimination of the Goths in Italy, and geographic isolation ( in Spain the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language when the Visigoths converted to Catholicism in 589 ).

The greater part of Italy would be lost to the invading Lombards three years after Justinian's death ( 568 ), the newly founded province of Spania was completely recovered by the Spanish Visigoths in 624 under the leadership of Suintila, and within a century and a half Africa would be forever lost for the empire to the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates during the Muslim conquests.

* 401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.

Theodoric the Great (; ;, Theuderikhos ; ; ; 454 – August 30, 526 ) was king of the Ostrogoths ( 471 – 526 ), ruler of Italy ( 493 – 526 ), regent of the Visigoths ( 511 – 526 ), and a viceroy of the Eastern Roman Empire.

* The Visigoths under king Euric march into Italy and suffer defeat against the forces of Odoacer.

* June – Battle of Verona: The Visigoths under command of king Alaric I invade Italy again and advance through the Brenner Pass.

* November 18 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.

In 473, the King of the Visigoths, Euric, ordered the invasion of Italy, but his commander Vincentius was defeated and killed by Glycerius ' comites Alla and Sindila.

Despite the victorious defence of Italy, Glycerius could do nothing to prevent the Visigoths from conquering Arelate and Marseille, in Gaul.

Despite this alliance, Thrasamund failed to aid Theodoric when the Byzantine Navy ravaged the coast of southern Italy, preventing him from coming assist King Alaric of the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouillé, which contributed to Alaric's defeat.

The code, however, appears to have been known amongst the Visigoths by the title of “ Lex Romana ”, or “ Lex Theodosii ”, and it was not until the 16th century that the title of “ Breviarium ” was introduced to distinguish it from a recast of the code, which was introduced into northern Italy in the 9th century for the use of the Romans in Lombardy.

* Theodoric the Great ( 454 – 526 ), ruler of the Ostrogoths, Italy, and the Visigoths

Around this time, Alaric moved to invade Italy with his Visigoths and established positions around Milan, where Honorius lay trapped.

The Visigoths rebelled, eventually invading Italy and sacking Rome in 410, before settling in Iberia and founding a kingdom which lasted for 200 years.

In 412 he expelled from Italy the Visigoths under Ataulf.

Taking the advice of Priscus Attalus — the former emperor whom Alaric had set up at Rome in opposition to Honorius at Ravenna, and who had remained with the Visigoths after he'd been deposed — Ataulf led his followers out of Italy.

Jovinus ' end came after the Visigoths under Ataulf left Italy ( at Priscus Attalus ' advice ), ostensibly to join him, carrying with them as hostages the ex-emperor Attalus and Galla Placidia, Honorius ' half-sister.

He broke the engagement between Huneric, prince of the Vandals, and Princess Eudocia, and had time to send Avitus to ask for the help of the Visigoths in Gaul before the Vandals sailed to Italy.

Turning on their hosts after decades of servitude and simmering hostility, Thervingi under Fritigern and later Visigoths under Alaric I eventually conquered and laid waste the entire Balkan region before moving westward to invade Italy itself.

The Visigoths eventually left Italy and founded the Visigothic Kingdom in southern Gaul and Hispania.

* 402 – Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

The Kingdom of the Visigoths under Alaric II. After a few years, however, Clovis violated the peace treaty negotiated in 502.

* 410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.

The most notable event of his reign was the assault and Sack of Rome on 24 August 410 by the Visigoths under Alaric.

The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451, and founded a Kingdom in Aquitaine which was pushed to Hispania by the Franks in 507, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, and in the early eighth century conquered by the Muslim Moors.

In the first decades under Byzantine rule ( until 461 ), Epirus nova suffered the devastation of raids by Visigoths, Huns, and Ostrogoths.

* 711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.

The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome until the city was sacked by the Visigoths under Alaric I in 410 CE.

* 456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc.

In or around 589, the Visigoths, under Reccared I, converted from Arianism to the Nicene faith, gradually adopting the culture of their Hispano-Roman subjects.

Roger Collins believes the Visigoths were a creation of the Gothic War of 376 – 382 and began as a collection of foederati ( Wolfram's " federate armies ") under Alaric I in the eastern Balkans, composed of largely Tervingi with Greuthungian and other barbarian contingents.

However, in 507, the Franks under Clovis I defeated the Visigoths in the Vouillé and wrested control of Aquitaine.

Other Visigoths, refusing to adopt the Muslim faith or live under their rule, fled north to the kingdom of the Franks, and Visigoths played key roles in the empire of Charlemagne a few generations later.

* 451: Huns under Attila facing the Romans and the Visigoths are defeated in the Battle of Chalons.

* August 24 – The Visigoths under Alaric I sack Rome after a third siege.

* The Visigoths under king Euric extend their rule from the Loire River to Gibraltar ( approximate date ).

* Lupicinus, Comes ( Count ) of Thrace, tries to bring the Visigoths back under control.

* 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 ), musters in Gaul an army of Burgundians, Celts, Ripuarians, Salian Franks and Visigoths under the command of the Visigoth king Theodoric I.