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  • Thumbnail for Sack of Rome (1527)
    The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of Rome on 6 May 1527 by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Allia
    archaeological evidence for a destruction-level of this date suggests that [this] sack of Rome was superficial only." The date of the battle has been traditionally...
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  • Thumbnail for Sack of Rome (455)
    The Sack of Rome in 455 AD was carried out by the Vandals led by their king Genseric. A peace treaty between the Western Roman Empire and Vandal Kingdom...
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  • Thumbnail for Sack of Rome (410)
    The Sack of Rome on 24 August 410 AD was undertaken by the Visigoths led by their king, Alaric. At that time, Rome was no longer the administrative capital...
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  • The sack of Rome in 546 was carried out by the Gothic king Totila during the Gothic War of 535–554 between the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire...
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  • Sack of Rome may refer to: Sack of Rome (390 BC) after the Battle of the Allia, by Brennus, king of the Senone Gauls Sack of Rome (410), by Visigoths...
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  • The Arab raid against Rome took place in 846. Muslim raiders plundered the outskirts of the city of Rome, sacking the basilicas of Old St Peter's and St...
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  • Thumbnail for Brennus (leader of the Senones)
    captured most of the city, holding it for several months. Brennus's sack of Rome was the only time in 800 years the city was occupied by a non-Roman army...
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  • The sack of Rome of May 1084 was a Norman sack, the result of the pope's call for aid from the duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard. Pope Gregory VII was besieged...
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  • Thumbnail for War of the League of Cognac
    Bologna to meet with the Pope. Clement absolved the participants of the sack of Rome and promised to crown Charles. In return, he received Ravenna and Cervia;...
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  • than fight the Vandal warlord. Although history remembers the Vandal sack of Rome as extremely brutal—making the word vandalism a term for any wantonly...
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  • The Sack of Rome (Italian: Il Sacco di Roma) is a 1920 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and Giulio Aristide Sartorio. The film...
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    regimes, and marched into Italy, where he died. He is responsible for the sack of Rome in 410; one of several notable events in the Western Roman Empire's eventual...
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  • Thumbnail for Vandal Kingdom
    (mostly wheat) to the city of Rome. Although primarily remembered for the sack of Rome in 455 and their persecution of Nicene Christians in favor of Arian Christianity...
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  • Thumbnail for Pope Clement VII
    by souring relations with Charles V in 1527, which led to the violent Sack of Rome, during which Clement was imprisoned. After escaping confinement in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Passetto di Borgo
    peril. Clement VII escaped to safety through this passage during the Sack of Rome in 1527, when troops of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, massacred...
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  • doctrine, as did two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens. After their sack of Rome, the Visigoths moved on to occupy Spain and southern France. Having been...
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  • Thumbnail for High Renaissance
    some say the High Renaissance ended about 1525, or in 1527 with the Sack of Rome by the mutinous army of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, or about 1530...
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  • Thumbnail for List of commanders of the Swiss Guard
    serving 51 popes, with interruptions during 1527–1548 following the Sack of Rome, in 1564/5, in 1704–1712 and in 1798/9 following the French invasion...
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    at the Siege of Vienna in 1529, while also being responsible for the Sack of Rome in 1527. The Germanic compound Landsknecht (earlier Lantknecht, without...
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