449. Landing of the Jutes under Hengist and Horsa in Britain, called there to repel the Picts and Scots. See [THE ENGLISH CONQUEST OF BRITAIN], iv, 55.
The "Robber Synod" meets at Ephesus. It reinstates Eutyches in the office of priest and archimandrite, from which he had been expelled, and exposes Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, who is so roughly attacked that he dies soon afterward of his injuries.
A synod at Rome reverses the acts at Ephesus.
450. Death of Theodosius II; by a nominal marriage his sister Pulcheria raises Marcian to the throne.
Attila demands the princess Honoria in marriage.
451. Gaul invaded by Attila; battle of Châlons. See [ATTILA INVADES WESTERN EUROPE], iv, 72.
Fourth general council of the Church, held at Chalcedon; the acts of the "Robber Synod" are annulled.
452. Attila, after withdrawing from Gaul, ravages Italy; he besieges and destroys Aquileia; its inhabitants flee to the marshes; Rome is saved by its Bishop, Leo the Great. Venice is founded. See [FOUNDATION OF VENICE], iv, 95.
453. Death of Attila; dissolution of his empire. Death of the empress Pulcheria.
454. Hengist founds the kingdom of Kent.