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Showing posts with label Ostrogoths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ostrogoths. Show all posts
Saturday, March 5, 2016

History Trivia - Odocacer executed

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March 5 493 the German barbarian leader Odovacar (Odocacer), who had ended the Western Roman Empire in 476, was executed at age 59 by...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

History Trivia - Roman Emperor Julian attacks the Sassanid (Persian) Empire

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March 5 363 Roman Emperor Julian attacked the Sassanid (Persian) Empire with an army of 90,000in a campaign which would bring about hi...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

History Trivia - Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome

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December 17, 546 Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquered Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison. 920 Romanos I was crown...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

History Trivia - Odoacer defeated at the Battle of Verona

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September 27 489 – Odoacer (first Germanic king of Italy) attacked Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Verona, and was de...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

History Trivia - Scottish land owners, churchmen and burgesses sign the The Ragman Rolls.

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August 28 430 Saint Augustine, the great Christian theologian, died at age 75. 476 the western Roman Empire founded by Augustus in 2...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

History Trivia - Cesare Borgia killed while fighting in Viana, Spain.

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March 12 538 Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ended his siege of Rome and retreated to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the vict...