493-526 Theodoric King of Italy
507 B. of Campus Vogladensis; Clovis annexes
Visigoth kdm.

493-526 Theodoric King of Italy
510 Ostrogoths annex Provence
511 Clovis dies, divides kdm. among 4 sons

493-526 Theodoric King of Italy
526-34 Amalaswintha Gothic regent of Italy

Execution of Boethius, (Consolation of Philosophy author) 524
St. Benedict founds Monte Cassino monastery 529

Amalasuntha Ostrogoth Queen
Roman Law codified 528-35
Nika revolt destroys Constantinople 532 makes war on Goths 535-53
Belisarius destroys African Vandal Kdm. 534-35
Franks annex Burgundy 534 then Provence 536
Belisarius recaptures Naples & Rome 536
Legendary King Arthur killed at b. of Camlan 537

542-52 Totila Gothic king
Ostrogoths under Totila (Baduila) defeats Byzantine army at Faenza and Mugello. 542
Totila captures Naples 543
Totila captures Rome 546
Belisarius recaptures Rome 547
Bubonic plague in Byzantium 541-70

Rome falls again to Ostrogoths 550
Belisarius defeats Ostrogoth navy 551
Byzantine eunuch Narses defeats Goths at b. of Taginae, Totila killed  (End of Ostrogoths) 552
Narses annexes Rome & Naples 551
Chlothar I reunites Frankish Kdm 558
Belisarius repels Huns (Bulgarians?) near Constantinople 559

Chlothar I dies 561 and divides kdm among 4 sons
Langobard Kgm in Italy 568-774
568 Founding of Venice

War btw. Persia & Byzantium 572-91

584-90 Authari king of Italy

590-615 Agilulf king of Italy
590-604 Pope Gregory I the Great
597 Augustine begins conversion of Saxon England