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Vandals

Vandals

Timeline

270   Vandals and Sarmatians driven out of Roman territory.

279   In the Balkans, Probus defeats the Burgundians and the Vandals.

325   Constantine I personally assures the security of the Danube border by defeating the Goths, Vandals and Sarmatians.

334   The Goths protect the Roman Empire against an invasion by the Vandals in the region near the Danube.

380   Invasion of the Vandals. Gratian is forced to cede Upper Pannonia to them.

401   Roman general Stilicho leads an extensive campaign against the Vandals in Rhaetia.

406   Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.

407   Invasion of Gaul by the Germans: Vandals, Alans and Suevi.

407   Gunderic becomes king of the Asding Vandals after the death of his father Godgisel.

409   The Vandals, Alans and Suevi break through Constantine III's garrisons into Hispania. They share the Iberian Peninsula by drawing lots, with the Vandals getting Hispania Baetica (modern Andalusia), the Suevi Gallaecia (modern Galicia and northern Portugal) and the Alans Lusitania (the rest of modern Portugal and Spanish Extremadura).

426   King Gunderic of the Vandals becomes king of the Alans as well (approximate date).

428   Geiseric becomes King of the Vandals and Alans.

429   Vandals under Geiseric cross from the Iberian Peninsula into Roman North Africa.

431   Marcian, future Eastern Roman Emperor, is captured while fighting the Vandals.

439   Carthage falls to the Vandals.

440   Geiseric, king of the Vandals, captures Sicily.

455   Gaiseric leads the Vandals into Rome and plunders the city for a period lasting for two weeks.

456   Capua is destroyed by the Vandals.

456   Ricimer beats the Vandals in a sea battle near Corsica.

468   The Vandal fleet overpowers the navy of Leo I.

469   The Vandals invade Epirus.

474   Forty-five years of conflict between the Roman Empire and the Vandals ends when the eastern Roman Emperor Zeno's envoys conclude a peace with King Geiseric.

477   Huneric becomes king of Vandals

484   Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals.

496   Thrasamund becomes king of the Vandals.

530   Hilderic, king of Vandals and Alans, deposed by his cousin Gelimer

533   Belisarius, lands in North Africa and attacks the Vandals.