493-526 Theodoric King of Italy
507 Battle of ( Vouillé) 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
523 Theodoric imprisons Boethius, where he writes On the Consolation of Philosophy and is executed in 524
526-34 Amalasuintha Gothic regent of Italy for her son Athalaric

St. Benedict founds Monte Cassino monastery 529

Amalasuintha Ostrogoth Queen
Emperor Justinian I at center of temporary revival of the empire, codifies Roman Law 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 Battle of Camlann 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 Battle 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
Lombard 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