Alaric is most famous for his sack of Rome in 410, which marked a decisive event in the decline of the Roman Empire.

Producer Phil Collinson marked the event with a sensational storyline in which the residents had to deal with a tragic accident and its aftermath.

For example, the boundary between the Cretaceous period and the Paleogene period is defined by the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, which marked the demise of the dinosaurs and many other groups of life.

This event marked the beginning of the browser's popularity decline, which led to its discontinuation in September 2008.

The 8. 2 ka event, an abrupt cold spell recorded as a negative excursion in the record lasting 400 years, is the most prominent climatic event occurring in the Holocene epoch, and may have marked a resurgence of ice cover.

This event marked the beginning of the period known as " Golden Liberty ", when the state was ruled by the " free and equal " Polish nobility.

This event marked the opening salvo of the rebellion which led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

The start of the period is marked by the major Triassic – Jurassic extinction event.

He believed it marked the beginning of an Anglo-German alliance, and ordered celebrations throughout Germany to mark the event.

The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regional boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene.

In December 1952, a riot broke out in Casablanca over the murder of a Tunisian labor leader ; this event marked a watershed in relations between Moroccan political parties and French authorities.

Professor Colin Pillinger, head of the Beagle 2 project, was the Guest Speaker, and the event marked the first time Beagle 2 had been presented to the general public in the UK.

The start of the Oligocene is marked by a notable extinction event ; the replacement of European fauna with Asian fauna, except for the endemic rodent and marsupial families called the Grande Coupure.

Newton describes the event in his autobiography, An Authentic Narrative ( published 1764 ), and thereafter marked the anniversary of his conversion as a day of thanks-giving.

In the event the phobia cannot be avoided entirely, the sufferer will endure the situation or object with marked distress and significant interference in social or occupational activities.

This event marked the end of Russia's first constitutional period, which was defined by the much-amended constitution adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1978.

The event marked the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.

They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

2007 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Fighting Fantasy, and to commemorate the event Wizard Books published a special hardcover edition of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain that used the original 1982 cover image and contained extra material such as the dungeon solution and a commentary on Fighting Fantasy by Livingstone.

While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the Space Age.

This event arguably marked a downturn in Daley's power and influence within the Democratic Party but, given his public standing, McGovern later made amends by putting Daley loyalist ( and Kennedy in-law ) Sargent Shriver on his ticket.

In 2011 the College celebrated its quincentenary, an event marked by a visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Celebrations took place to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the first such event in Canada since 1897, when Victoria marked her 60th year on the throne.

Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.

The third event was a concerted effort to transform some of the dance crazes into dances which could be taught to a wider dance public in the US and Europe.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.

The 1983 event was hosted by England for a third consecutive time.

Cities and Knights introduces a third die, known as the event die, which serves two functions.

After four games she had two points, which was a fair result considering she was rated third from last in the very strong event.

He again pushed the car to the finish line to place fourth, although in the event this was unnecessary as his other title rival, Brooks, finished only third.

The 2012 Season marks the third time the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman Stadium ( then named Royals Stadium ) last hosting the event in 1973, the stadium's first year of existence.

And third, the principles of contiguity ( how close in time two events must be for a bond to be formed ) and reinforcement ( any means of increasing the likelihood that an event will be repeated ) are central to explaining the learning process.

For the first event, Tureaud came in third place.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

The third event was land colonization, which resulted from the availability of land, the existence of economic opportunity, the increased price of crops, and the newly gained accessibility of the eastern border region.

The status of the Kaigas " glaciation " or " cooling event " is currently unclear ; some workers do not recognise it as a glacial, others suspect that it may reflect poorly dated strata of Sturtian association, and others believe it may indeed be a third ice age.

Like the ( much longer ) team pursuit event, two teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track, but at the end of the first lap, the leading rider in each team drops out of the race by riding up the banking leaving the second rider to lead for the second lap ; at the end of the second lap, the second rider does the same, leaving the third rider to complete the last lap on his own.

Rugby increased in size and audience, as the Rugby World Cup became the third most watched sporting event in the world with the 2007 Rugby World Cup organized in France.

* April 24 – Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.

Haiti's Carnival always ends at 4am for the first and second day of the event and the third day of the event ends at 6am as the last and champion konpa band arrives.

The Games are described as the third largest multi-sport event in the world after the Olympic Games and the Asian Games.

This is, for example, the situation when two persons bet on the outcome of a future event and ask a third, disinterested, neutral person to hold the money ( or " stake ") that they have wagered ( or " staked ")).

Three hundred years later, the American astronomical historian William Ashworth suggested that what Flamsteed may have seen was the most recent supernova in the galaxy's history, an event which would leave as its remnant the strongest radio source outside of the solar system, known in the third Cambridge ( 3C ) catalogue as 3C 461 and commonly called Cassiopeia A by astronomers.

The third event is the Historical Regata ( first Sunday in June ), a traditional rowing competition among the four main Italian historical maritime republics: Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa and Venice.