Vandals Timeline

Vandals migrate from Scandinavia to Silesia.

Vandals mention by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History.

Vandals mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania.

Vandals associated with Rome.

Hostilities between Vandals and Rome.

Vandals defeated by Aurelian.

Vandals defeated by Probus.

Vandals situated in Pannonia by Constantine.

Vandals, Suevi, and Alans invade Gaul.

Vandals invade Gaul.

Vandals seize important ports of Hispania, battle Romans and Visigoths.

Gaiseric becomes King of the Vandals.

Vandals cross Spain to the Maghreb.

Vandals overrun Caesarea.

Gaiseric leads the Vandal invasion of Roman North Africa.

Vandals take Carthage from the Western Roman Empire and make it their new capital.

Treaty between Gaiseric and Valentinian III of Rome recognizing Vandal Kingdom of North Africa.

Vandals sack Rome.

Valentinian III assassinated; Gaiseric sacks Rome.

Eastern and Western halves of Roman Empire unite against Vandals and are defeated.

Death of Gaiseric.

Reign of Huneric as King of the Vandals.

Reign of Gunthamund.

Reign of Thrasamund.

Reign of Hilderic.

Reign of Gelimer.

Belisarius defeats the Persians to the east of the Byzantine Empire and the Vandals of Africa.

The Vandal War launched by Emperor Justinian I, aimed a reconquering Africa from the Vandals.

Invasion of North Africa by Roman Empire led by Belisarius.

Vandals under Gelimer defeated at Battle of Ad Decium and Battle of Tricameron by Romans under Belisarius.

Justinian of the Byzantine Empire conquers the Vandal kingdom in Africa.

Gelimer, the last Vandal king, captured and brought to Constantinople; Vandals cease to exist as a political/cultural entity.