Western Roman Empire

State · 395–476 CE · at its largest around 396 CE

Western half of the divided Roman Empire, which lost its provinces to Germanic peoples and ended when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus in 476.

On its lands while it lasted

Volubilis (400 BCE – 1710 CE): Capital of Mauretania (212 BCE–42), Idrisids (793–974).
Trier (16 BCE – 1618 CE): Capital of Electorate of Trier (1333–1618).
Augustine of Hippo (354 CE – 430 CE): Theologian and bishop of Hippo Regius in Roman North Africa whose works, including the Confessions and The City of God, shaped Western Christianity.
Migration of the Visigoths (376–418 CE): Goths fleeing the Huns crossed the Danube into the Roman Empire in 376, defeated the Romans at Adrianople in 378, and under Alaric sacked Rome in 410, before settling in Aquitaine in 418.
Ravenna (c. 395 CE): Capital of Western Roman Empire (395–476), Ostrogothic Kingdom (500–553).
Attila (c. 406 CE – 453 CE): Ruler of the Huns who led devastating invasions of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires from his base on the Hungarian plain.
Sack of Rome (410) (410 CE): The Visigoths under Alaric sacked Rome, the first time in eight centuries that the city had fallen to a foreign enemy.
Braga (c. 414 CE): Capital of Kingdom of the Suebi (414–585), Kingdom of Galicia (911–1125).
Venice (c. 421 CE): Traditionally founded in 421, Venice grew on lagoon islands into a maritime republic that dominated trade between Europe and the East.
Lyon (c. 443 CE): Capital of Burgundian Kingdom (443–534).
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (c. 450 CE): Angles, Saxons and Jutes from northern Germany and Denmark settled in lowland Britain, laying the foundations of England and the English language.
Clovis I (c. 466 CE – 511 CE): King who united the Franks, converted to Catholic Christianity and made Paris his capital.
Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE): The Germanic general Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor, at Ravenna, a date conventionally marking the end of the Western Empire.
Soissons (c. 476 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Soissons (476–486), Kingdom of Neustria (724–731).
Toulouse (c. 476 CE): Capital of Visigothic Kingdom (476–507), County of Toulouse (990–1249), Duchy of Aquitaine (990–1439).