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The Vandals left Spain in 429 and conquered most of the Roman territories in western north Africa. This was the sixth and final known kingdom founded by the Vandals. It ceased to exist when the Eastern Roman Empire managed to reconquer the region.
Establishment
January 430: The Vandals crossed the Strait of Gibraltar subdued Mauretania (429).
Chronology
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The Vandals invaded North Africa.
January 431: Numidia conquered by Kingdom of the Vandals.
August 431: The Kingdom of the Vandals captured Hippo.
The Vandals conquered Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia.
October 439: While Aetius was restoring order in Gaul, in Africa Genseric on 19 October 439 took Carthage, the capital of the Praetorian Prefecture of Africa, definitively putting an end to any semblance of imperial power in the region. Having taken control of the numerous African ports, Genserico also set up his own fleet with which he began to practice piracy.
The Vandals occupied Sicily.
January 441: The Vandalic Kingdom took advantage of the weakness of the Western Roman Empire of Valentinian III, engaged in the wars in Gaul, to plunder and occupy Sicily in 440.
Theodosius II, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, dispatched an expedition to deal with the Vandals in 441.
January 442: Theodosius II, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, dispatched an expedition to deal with the Vandals in 441, however it only progressed as far as Sicily.
Was a military campaign of Western Roman Emperor against the Vandals in Sicily and southern Italy.
January 456: Ricimer was a Germanic general and de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire. The Vandals were a Germanic tribe led by King Genseric. The pirate raids were part of the Vandals' conquest of North Africa and Mediterranean territories.
February 456: Ricimer was a Germanic general and de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire. The Vandals were a Germanic tribe known for their piracy and raids in the Mediterranean. Ricimer's successful defense against the Vandals helped maintain control over Sicily and southern Italy for the Western Roman Empire in 456.
Gaiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans, attacked and occupied several Mediterranean islands.
January 457: In 456, Genseric, with his fleet, took possession of Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands.
Western Roman Emoperor Majorian was assassinated and overthrown by Ricimer.
September 461: Upon his return to Italy, Majoran was assassinated by order of Ricimer in August 461. Majorian's death meant the definitive loss to the Vandals of Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands, as well as of Spain to the Visigoths: in fact , after Majorian's withdrawal from Spain, no other Roman official is attested in the sources in the Iberian peninsula, making it clear that after 460 Spain was no longer de facto part of the Empire.
Was an military expedition of the Vandals in the Peloponnese.
January 470: After capturing the western fleet and destroying the eastern one, the Vandals attempted to invade the Peloponnese, but were driven back to sea near the Maina peninsula with very heavy losses. Taking 500 Roman hostages on Zakynthos, they hacked them to pieces on the way back to Carthage, throwing the remains overboard.
February 470: After capturing the western fleet and destroying the eastern one, the Vandals attempted to invade the Peloponnese, but were driven back to sea near the Maina peninsula with very heavy losses. Taking 500 Roman hostages on Zakynthos, they hacked them to pieces on the way back to Carthage, throwing the remains overboard.
Odoacer received eastern Sicily from the Vandals.
January 477: In 476, the Kingdom of Odoacer, led by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer, gained control of central-eastern Sicily from the Vandals, a Germanic tribe led by King Genseric. This acquisition was made possible through the payment of a tribute.
Odoacer conquered western Sicily from the Vandals.
January 478: In 476 Odoacer, king of the Heruli, began a bloody war against the Vandals, redeeming however almost all of Sicily with a tribute. With Hunneric the only Vandal stronghold remained Lilybaeum.
Was an unsuccesfull Vandalic military expedition to Sicily.
January 492: Taking advantage of the conflict between Odoacer and Theodoric, Vandal king Gunthamund tried to regain possession of Sicily.
February 492: The Vandalic troops sent to the Sicily in 491 were driven back by the Ostrogoths. The Vandals also lost the contribution that Odoacer paid to the king of the Vandals, starting in 476, for the possession of the island.
The Kingdom of the Ostrogoths conquered the last Vandalic territories in Sicily.
January 497: Under Gutemondo, nephew of Genseric, between 484 and 496, Sicily was entirely conquered by the Ostrogoths.
The Kingdom of the Ostrogoths donated the Sicilian city of Lilibeo to the Kingdom of the Vandals after the marriage of Amalfrid, the sister of Theodoric King of the Ostrogoths, with the King of the Vandals.
January 501: The vandal king Thrasamund made an alliance with the Ostrogoths, and in his second marriage, in 500, he married the sister of their king Theodoric, Amalafrida, who arrived in Carthage escorted by 1,000 notables and 5,000 slaves skilled in arms, bringing as a dowry the Sicilian city of Lilybaeum and its district (the western end of the island).
Were a series of wars initiated by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I to reconquer former territories of the Western Roman Empire. Although Justinian was not able to conquer back all these territories, he was succesful in conquering most of them.
14.1.Vandalic War
Was a war by Eastern Roman Emperor Juistinian I against the Vandalic Kingdom, which was conquered by the Romans.
September 533: Syllectum was captured by a Roman detachment under Boriades.
September 533: The Battle of Ad Decimum against the Vandals ended in a crushing Roman victory.
September 533: On the morning of September 15th, Belisarius drew up the army for battle before the city walls, but as no enemy appeared, he led his army into the city, after again exhorting his troops to show discipline. .
October 533: The Romans reached Cape Caputvada on the eastern shore of modern Tunisia.
October 533: The Romans advanced through Thapsus, Leptis Parva and Hadrumetum to Grasse.
November 533: Belisarius also demanded the return of the port of Lilybaeum in western Sicily from the Ostrogoths, who had captured it during the war.
December 533: Belisarius was a Byzantine general who led the Eastern Roman Empire's campaign to reconquer the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. Hippo Regius was a city where the Vandals sought refuge but eventually surrendered to Belisarius in 533.
April 534: Gelimer surrendered to the Eastern Roman Empire, led by General Belisarius, in March 534 after negotiations that ensured his safety.
April 534: Belisarius was a Byzantine general under Emperor Justinian I. In 534, he sent armies to occupy various vandal regions outside Africa, including Sardinia, Corsica, Caesarea, Septem, Gadira, Balearic islands, and Tropolitania. This marked a significant expansion of the Eastern Roman Empire's territory.
14.1.1.Surrender of Gelimer
Was the surrender of the king of the Vandals Gelimer to the Eastern Roman invading troops.
January 535: Gelimer continued to resist on Mount Pappua, besieged by Fara, a Herulian general in the service of the Byzantines, to whom he surrendered in 534. With Gelimer's capture, the Kingdom of the Vandals dissolved.
14.2.Byzantine reconquest of Spania
Was a Byzantine military campaign against the Kingdom of the Visigoths to reconquer the Iberian Peninsula. The Byzantine were able to slowly occupy the southern coast of the Peninsula.
January 535: Ceuta was seized by an expedition dispatched by Belisarius.
Disestablishment
January 535: Ceuta was seized by an expedition dispatched by Belisarius.
January 535: Gelimer continued to resist on Mount Pappua, besieged by Fara, a Herulian general in the service of the Byzantines, to whom he surrendered in 534. With Gelimer's capture, the Kingdom of the Vandals dissolved.
Kingdom of the Vandals
