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.

The event marked the third time that New Zealand's top diplomat in Fiji has been expelled since the 2006 coup.

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.

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.

The event marks the end of the Mesozoic Era and the beginning of the Cenozoic Era.

Alpha Centauri is not actually a sequel to Civilization, despite beginning with the same event that ends Civilization and Civilization II: a manned spacecraft from Earth arrives in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Shortly thereafter, Kirk Douglas made public Trumbo's credit for the screenplay for Spartacus ( 1960 ), an event which has been cited as the beginning of the end of the blacklist.

The event was the beginning of the teacher reincarnation system for the Black-Hat Line of Tibetan Buddhism.

A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

Roney and Trick argue that a solution to gambler's fallacy could be, instead of teaching individuals about the nature of randomness, training people to treat each event as if it is a beginning and not a continuation of previous events.

If the event remains tied, the jumpers have a jump-off, beginning at the next greater height.

This event is traditionally recognised as the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain.

The professed purpose of banishing rituals is to eliminate forces that might interfere with a magical operation, and they are often performed at the beginning of an important event or ceremony ( although they can be performed for their own sake as well ).

In 1956, he edited an important book on the subject, La grève de l ' amiante, which argued that the strike was a seminal event in Quebec's history, marking the beginning of resistance to the conservative, Francophone clerical establishment and Anglophone business class that had long ruled the province.

Similarly, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, codified into law applicable to European Union countries by the passage civil lawsuit, is said to have accrued when the event beginning its time limitation occurs.

His death was the epoch event beginning the troubled Crisis of the Third Century where a succession of short-reigning military emperors, revolting generals, and counter claimants presided over governmental chaos, civil war, general instability and great economic disruption.

The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era, spanning to the beginning of the most recent ice age at the end of the Pliocene Epoch.

This presents Zeno's problem not with finding the sum, but rather with finishing a task with an infinite number of steps: how can one ever get from A to B, if an infinite number of ( non-instantaneous ) events can be identified that need to precede the arrival at B, and one cannot reach even the beginning of a " last event "?

In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji era and the beginning of the Taishō era.

This event would late be romanticized in Western literature and history as the Fall of Rome and is traditionally used by historians to mark the beginning of the European Middle Ages.

The event marks the beginning of the War of the Pacific between Chile and the joint forces of Peru and Bolivia.

Peter stated that this event was the beginning of a continual outpouring that would be available to all believers from that point on, Jews and Gentiles alike.

Rain or snow begins to reach surface level at the beginning of a precipitation event that can last up to 36 hours depending and the size of the weather system and its speed of movememnt.

Before the beginning of a three-day event, and also before the last phase, horses are inspected by a vet to ensure that they are fit to compete further.

From the beginning, event horses had to carry a minimum weight of ( including rider and saddle ) during the endurance test, since military horses were expected to be able to carry such weight.

The event occurs approximately twice a year, at the beginning of May and in the middle of June.