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Chronological Table: Clovis

EXTINCTION of the WESTERN EMPIRE of the Romans, 507 years from the battle of Actium, and 1224 from the building of Rome. 481 Clovis King of the Franks.

Zeno makes Theodoric, the Ostrogoth, his General, and creates him Consul. 483 Pope Felix III. 485 Battle of Soissons gained by Clovis. 488 Theodoric the Ostrogoth entirely defeats Odoacer, and is acknowledged King of Italy by the Emperor Zeno. 490 The Burgundians, under Gondebald, ravage Italy. 491 ANASTASIUS Emperor of the East. 492 Pope Gelasius. 493 Odoacer put to death by Theodoric. 496 Pope Anastasius II. 497 Clovis and the Franks converted to Christianity. 498 Pope Symmachus. 499 Alliance between Clovis and Theodoric the Great. 500 Gondebald, the Burgundian, becomes tributary to Clovis. 501 The Burgundian laws published by Gondebald. 502 Cabades King of Persia ravages part of the Eastern Empire. 504 The Eastern Empire makes peace with Cabades. 507 Clovis defeats Alaric the Visigoth, and receives a congratulatory embassy with a diadem, from Anastasius. 508 Theodoric the Great defeats Clovis in the battle of Arles, and then makes peace with him. with him.

A. D. 510 Clovis makes Paris the capital of the kingdom of the Franks. 511 Death of Clovis. - Division of his kingdom among his four sons. - - Childebert (Paris), Thierry (Metz), Clotaire (Soissons), and Clodomir (Orleans), 512 The Heruli allowed by Anastasius to settle in Thrace. 514 Kings of the Franks.

Pope Hormisdas. 515 Arthur King of the Britons supposed to have begun his reign. 516 The computation of time by the Christian Era introduced by Dionysius the Monk. 517 The Getæ ravage Illyrium, Macedonia, and Epirus. 518 JUSTIN I. Emperor of the East, raised from obscurity. 519 -- 523 restores the Orthodox Bishops, and condemns the Eutychians. Cabades King of Persia proposes that Justin should adopt his son Cosroes, and makes war on a refusal.