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584 – Exarchate of Ravenna established (approximate date). 729 – Battle of Ravenna (729) 751 – Lombards in power. [1] 777 – Ravenna under rule of the Holy See. [3] 967 – Imperial Diet held by Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor; 1441 – Venetians in power. [1] 1512 – Battle of Ravenna (1512) fought near town during the War of the League of ...
The decisive battle was fought on 2 September 476 near Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire: it saw the foederati defeat the largely depleted Roman garrison. The city, defended by Paulus (the brother of Orestes) [2] was captured swiftly and easily. Two days later, the sixteen-year-old emperor Romulus Augustulus was forced to ...
Here he continued Don Juan and wrote Ravenna Diary, My Dictionary and Recollections. [25] Ravenna is the location where Lionel, the protagonist of Mary Shelley's post-apocalyptic novel The Last Man, comes ashore after losing his companions to a howling storm in the Aegean Sea. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) wrote a poem Ravenna in 1878. [26]
Battle of Ravenna (475), between Orestes and Julius Nepos; Battle of Ravenna (476), in which Odoacer captured Ravenna and brought the Western Roman Empire to an end; Battle of Ravenna (729), between the Byzantine Empire and the Italians; Battle of Ravenna (1512), between the French and Spanish-Papal during the War of the League of Cambrai
After clearing out Ariminum, Urviventus, Urbinus and Auximus the road to Ravenna was open to the Byzantines. [1] In late 539 [1] [2] or early 540 [1] [3] Belisarius, victor of engagements like Dara, Ad Decimum and Rome, marched on Ravenna while Vitalius was already in the area. [1] Vitalius discovered a grain shipment destined for Ravenna and ...
Most western emperors from 450 until 475 reigned from Rome. The last de facto western emperor Romulus Augustulus resided in Ravenna from 475 until his deposition in 476 and Ravenna would later be the capital of both the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Exarchate of Ravenna. [52] [53]
Combined with the ambition of Ludovico Sforza, its collapse allowed Charles VIII of France to invade Naples in 1494, which drew in Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Although Charles was forced to withdraw in 1495, ongoing political divisions among the Italian states made them a battleground in the struggle for European domination between France ...
Initial Muslim victory, conquering the coastal areas of Iberian Peninsula and establishing some colonies on the coast of Spain to help the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Areas lost soon after due to the general disorder in the Muslim empire, re-occupied by Visigoths. Byzantine incursion against Visigoth Spain (694/702/703)