THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 24
August 24 in history
What happened on August 24: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 410, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Alaric’s sack of Rome
24 Aug 410 — Alaric’s Goths, refused land and pay for a decade, enter by the Salarian Gate. Three days of looting; the world’s psychological capital falls. Jerome: “the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken.”
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