410 AD
Sack of Rome by the Visigoths
Alaric's Visigoths enter and plunder the city of Rome.
- Time period
- 410 AD
- Region
- Italy (Rome)
- Theme
- Military
- Civilization
- Visigoths and Western Rome
In August 410 CE, Alaric's Visigoths entered Rome and pillaged it for three days. It was the first time in about 800 years that the city fell to a foreign enemy. The shock echoed across the Roman world and inspired Augustine's City of God.