336: In Rome, the first recorded celebration of Christmas takes place.

370: The German peoples surrounded the north borders of the Roman empire while the Hons were destroying
everything that they had come across, villages, cities, even empires.

398: John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, receives a delegation of clergy who want to
close the pagan temples at Gaza (Palestine) where worshipers are openly defying the law. John works
through the eunuch Eutropius, who has great power over emperor Arcadius, and within a week an imperial
Constitution is issued closing the Roman temples, but the official appointed to execute this order
is bribed.

415: The Visigoths invade the Iberian Peninsula and begin to conquer territory taken previously
by the Vandals. King Ataulf and his pregnant wife Galla Placidia leave Gallia Narbonensis; they
relocate at Barcelona. Their infant son, Theodosius, dies in infancy, eliminating an opportunity
for a Roman-Visigothic line. Ataulf is assassinated in the palace while taking a bath. Sigeric succeeds
him, but after a reign for seven days he is also murdered.

435: Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum), begins in Gaul a campaign against the Burgundians,
following their raids into neighbouring Gallia Belgica by King Gunther.

460: The Roman fleet, docked at Portus Illicitanus (near Elche) for the African campaign, is destroyed
by the Vandals. Majorian is forced to sign a peace treaty and returns to Italy

490: Empress Feng of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty dies. She is buried with magnificent honors,
in the Wenming Tomb.

515: Emperor Anastasius I gives Marinus, former praetorian prefect of the East, command over the
Byzantine army.[1] He defeats the rebel fleet at the harbor entrance, using a sulfur-based chemical
substance, similar to the later Greek fire.

547: Theudebald, age 13, succeeds his father Theudebert I after a reign of 14 years, and becomes
king of Austrasia.

565: Columba, Irish missionary, spots the Loch Ness Monster on the River Ness present day Scotland
and saves the life of a Pict.

3000bc: In Mesopotamia, bronze is first used.