August 24, 410
The Day the Salarian Gate Opened
The Visigothic sack of Rome under Alaric on August 24, 410 AD
For eight hundred years no foreign army had breached Rome's walls — until a Gothic king who spent his whole life trying to become a Roman finally gave up asking. What broke first was not the wall, but the bargain that held an empire together.
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