The Barbarian List

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The Gothic Epochs:
1. Scandinavian (a theorized epoch) wherein the Goths successively emigrated from Scandinavia to Gothiscandza; many researchers vindicate that the Goths were autochton to the Vistula/Wisla area, i.e. they were 'created' there by a merger of various Germanic peoples;
2. Gothiscandzan (archeologically verified) wherein the Goths traded amber and fur between Scandinavia and the Roman Empire, the Vandals were defeated;
3. Geto-Scythian (historico-archeologically verified) wherein the Goths dominated current day Romania and Ukraine, and a large kingdom was erected;
4. Migration time (historico-archeologically verified) wherein the Goths were under Hun or Roman suzerainity as allied/foederati;
5. Ruling time (historically verified) wherein the Goths had erected souvereign kingdoms in the areas of the former Roman Empire;
6. Post-ruling time (some literary indications) whereupon the Goths were slowly diminishing minorities with decreasing influence until they finally disappeared.
About the sometimes presumed relationship between Goths and Götar, Gutar in various parts of Sweden:
We don't know... Jordanes himself said that the Goths came from Scandza (Scandinavia).

Götar (Gautoz, Geatas) were situated in the Swedish counties of Östergötland and Västergötland and some more places. The Beowulf Poem relates to Beowulf as being a King of Geatas. We are still sort of here, but we are very Swedish with no separate population or culture. The counties Öster- and Västergötland have no relationship whatsoever with Ostrogothi and Visigothi. Older Swedish nationalism vindicated such a connection, but that point of view is obsolete in extreme.

Gutar (Gutones) are situated on Gotland Island. They speak a dialect which is rather different from the mainland Swedes. A few people at Fårö (Sheep Island) speak Gotlandian, a very small remnant from the elder Gutnian, which was a separate language from Swedish, but nearly related.

There is indications that the Goths may have been trading with the Gautos (or with Heruli), but no special indications that they traded with the Gutones.

The Barbarian Celebrity List:

Pixmap explanation:
Icons:
Cleric - priest, bishop, saint or a similar religious person,
Author - historician or litterary person,
War king - i.e. a war chief or raid chief,
Magister Militium - a Roman high general serving as the military leader protecting a subarea of the Roman Empire,
Prince - son of a king and a queen,
Princess - daughter of a king and a queen,
King - elected king for a people occupying a land area,
Queen - wife of a king or the ruler of a people in her own right,
Agilulf:
Langobardian king 590-615. Negotiates peace with Franks and Byzantines.
Aistulf:
Langobardian king 749-756. Conquers Ravenna from Bysans.
Alaric (ala rikus = reign of all [men]):
Visigothic war king, ravages Balkan 397-401, was elected to Magister Illyricum 401, ravages Italia 401-410, conquers and pillages Rome 410, whereafter he dies at Cosenza in southern Italia, when preparing to conquer Africa.
Alaric II:
Visigothic king 484-507. Falls against the Franks led by Chlodoweg.
Amalaberga (amala bairga = saviour/protectrix of the Amal house):
Ostrogothic princess. Thuringian queen. In the beginning of the 6:th century. Wife of Herminafrid of the Thuringians.
Amalafrida (amala frida = peace of the Amal house):
Ostrogothic princess. Vandal queen. In the beginning of 6:th century. Wife of Trasamund of the Vandals. Was as widow queen imprisoned and died in inprisonment.
Amalaric (amala rikus = reign of the Amal house):
Visigothic prince. Son of Alaric II. Not enthroned but regencied by Theoderic the Great.
Arbogast:
Frankish Magister Militium under Theodosius Caesar (East Rome). Murders Valentinianus II Caesar (West Rome) in 392.
Ardaric:
Gepidian war king, shatters the hunn empire 453 after the death of Attila.
Ariovistus (*Harijawistaz?):
Suebian war king defeated by Julius Caesar 58 BC.
Arminius (*Harijamannaz = warrior man or *Erminiaz = the huge one):
Cheruscian war king. Conquers 9 AD, by his cheruscic troops, the Romans led by Varus, and thereby exempt the germanians from the Roman Empire for ever. Dead about 19 AD.
Athalaric (aþala rikus = noble reign):
Ostrogothic prince. Son of Amalasuinta, and presumed to be the first male king after Theoderic the Great. Died however at young age in 534.
Athanaric:
Gothic King during the Getica period.
Athawulf (aþa wulf = noble wolf):
Visigothic king 410-415. Married to Gallia Placidia, sister of emperor Honorius.
Authari (audh hari = ?? warrior):
Langobardian king 584-590.
Audufleda:
Ostrogothic queen of Theoderic the Great.
Brunhild:
Visigothic princess, Frankian queen around year 570.
Chilperic II: Frankish king 561-584. Son of Chlotar I.
Chlodoweg:
Frankish king 482-511.
Chlothar I:
Frankish, king from 558, who manages to unite the Frankish Kingdom during 558-561. Deceased in 561.
Chlothar II:
Frankish king 584-629.
Dagobert I:
Frankish king 623-638, during the years 623-629 coruler with his father Chlotar II.
Desiderius:
Langobardian king 756-774. The last langobardian king for a united Italy. The kingdom is destroyed by the Franks, and Desiderius is forced to withdraw from rule.
Ermanarik (or Erminarik, ermina rikus = huge wealth, large reign):
Ostrogothic king. Suicide 375 during the Hun invasion and destruction of the kingdom of the Ostrogoths - the Hun Catastrophy.
Erwig:
Visigothic king 680-687.
Euric:
Visigothic king 466-484. Authorizes Codex Euricianus.
Geiseric:
Vandal king 428, drives the Vandals to conquer Africa 429 thereby constituting a sovereign nation; dead 477
Grimoald I:
Langobardian king 661-671. Annected Benevent to the Langobardian Nation. Frankic, bysantian, avarian and sclavonian attacks are successfully defeated. After his death the Langobardian Nation was split-up.
Gundahar (gunda harijaz = shielded warrior):
Burgundian king and founder of the Burgundian Nation at some time in the beginning of the 5th century.
Herminafrid:
Burgundian king 510-531, when the Franks finally crushed the Burgundian Nation.
Hermenegild:
Visigothic prince who converted to catholicism, thereby rebelling against his father Leowigild.
Hildebad:
Became Ostrogothic king 451 but was murdered at the same year.
Ingunde:
Frankish princess married into the Visigothic royal house. Refused to convert to Arianism. Wife of Hermenegild.
Jordanes:
Historician, who wrote "DE ORIGINE ACTIBVSQVE GETARVM" (also called "Getica") to be published at 551. Getica is one most important source of our knowledge about the Goths. He was romanspeaking but partly of Gothic origin.
Kniwa:
Gothic war king, under whome Goths were raiding Balkan 248-251 and killing Decius Caesar.
Leowigild:
Visigothic king 568-586. Reconquers the Byzantines South Iberian enclave, conquers the Suebian kingdom.
Liutprand:
Langobardian king 712-744. Tries to reunite Italy, but doesn't succeed.
Matasunta:
Ostrogothic princess and queen. Wife of Witiges.
Odoacer:
Germanic Magister Militium of Scirian heritage. Overthrows Romulus Augustulus, the last West Roman emperor year 476. Died in 493 by the hand of Theoderic.
Radagaisus:
War king ravaging Italy 406 where he is defeated and killed.
Rekared I:
Visigothic king 586-601. Converts to catholicism, along with the gothic nobility.
Rekesvint:
Visigothic king 649-672. Authors Lex Visigothorum, valid for both Romans and Goths.
Roderic (--> sp. Rodrigues):
The last Visigothic king 709-711 over the whole Iberian Peninsula. His kingdom is crushed by the arabs in 711.
Rodulf (* Hrodowulfaz = resolute wolf):
King of the Heruli. Elected to "son of arms" by Theoderic the Great. Was king when the Herulian Kingdom was crushed by the Langobards in 508.
Rothari (* Hrodaharijaz = resolute warrior):
Langobardian king 636-652. Authors Edicus Rothari - the Langobardian law. Conquers whole Italy excluding Ravenna, the outer peninsulæ of South Italy and Sicily.
Sigibert III:
Frankish king 633-651, during the years 633-651 coruler with his father Dagobert I.
Teja:
The last Ostrogothic King 552 during a few months. Deceases at Mons Lactarius at the last Ostrogothic stand against the Byzantines.
Theodebert:
Frankish king who in 539 tries to defeat the Ostrogoths and Byzantines in North Italy, but doesn't succeed.
Theodahad:
Coregent to Amalasunta, whome he murders 535. King 534-536.
Theoderic the Great of Amali:
Ostrogothic king 493-526. Elected to Magister Militium for Illyria in 488 by the Byzantine emperor. Conquers Italy from Illyria. Coregent to Odoacer 493. Kills Odoacer by his own hand shortly thereafter, and thereby becomes sole regent. From 511 also king over the Visigoths in Spain.
Theoderic Strabo (= Theoderic the Squinteyed):
Rival against Theoderic Amali over the leadership over the Ostrogoths. Dead 481 by accident.
Theodorid:
Visigothic king 418-451. Dead in the battle at the Catalaunian Fields, when the Romans allied with the Visigoths, defeated Attila of the Huns.
Theodorid II:
Visigothic king 453-466.
Thiudagota:
Ostrogothic princess, Visigothic queen, wife of Alaric II.
Totila:
Ostrogothic king 542-552. Leads a common Romanogothic Italian rebellion against the Byzantines. Succeeded to temporarily take free Italy. Dead in battle against the Byzantine general Narses at Tadinæ 552.
Wamba:
Visigothic king 672-680. Elected agains his wish. Forced to withdraw.
Wallia:
Visigothic leader founding Regnum Visigothorum Tolosanum (southwest France).
Witiges:
Ostrogothic king 536-540. Captured by the Byzantines under Bellisarius.
Wulfila:
Visigothic bishop born 307 by parents of Cappadocian origin. Translated the Bible to Gothic. Exiled from Visigothia Getica (Romania) by Athanaric. Founded the Christian Gothi Minores settled in Moesia (Bulgaria). Dead 383.

Historical Events

Sorted by nation
Germanians in general:
c:a 230-200 BC: Bastarns and Sciri moves to the Black Sea and settles on the north slope of the Carpatian Mountains.
58 BC: The Suebi under Ariovistus were defeated by Julius Caesar in Alsace.
56 BC: The Usipetes and Tencteri are driven back into Germania by Julius Caesar.
15 BC: Tiberius Julius Caesar and Drusus conquers Raetia and Noricum.
12-9 BC: Drusus subdues the Batavians, Frisians and Cherusci.
9 BC: Drusus dies at Albis (Elbe).
8-6 BC: Tiberius Julius Caesar occupies Germania up to Albis.
4-6 AD: Tiberius Julius Caesar subdues the Langobards on the far side of Albis with support from the Cherusci. Tiberius also makes war against the Marcomanni.
9 AD: Roman troups under Varus disintegrated by cherusci led by Arminius in the Teutoburger forest.
14-16 AD: Germanicus performs a costly and failed campain into Germania.
37-41 AD: Gaius Caesar Germanicus (Caligula) performs failed (Acoording to Tacituses "feigned") campains against Germanians.
c:a 65 AD: Batavian rebellion in Rhenus delta surpressed by Vespasianus.
83 AD: Domitianus Caesar performs a campain (punishment?) against Chatti on the north side of Mons Taunus.
171 AD: Chatti begin to attack the Roman Empire.
257 AD: An undefined assembly of Germanians marches through Gallia Transalpina (France) via Hispania, down to Mauretania (Morocco).
260 AD: Superior Rhen-Rhaetica limes abandoned.
269 AD: Goths, Heruli, Pecuni and Gepids attacks simultaneously (coordinatedly?) the northeast border of the Roman Empire.
c:a 409 AD: Suebi settle in northwestern Iberia as foederati.
451 AD: The battle at the Catalaunian Fields, where Stilicho defeats Attila. According to Jordanes, the sides were as follows: Aetius with Roman troups, aided by Visigoths, Franks, Sarmatians, Armoricians, Burgundians, Saxons, Riparians, Olibrones and some more, Attila with his Huns, aided by Ostrogoths, Gepids, and many others.
476 AD: The child emperor Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the West Roman Empire, deposed by the Scirian Magister Militium Odoacer, who is proclaimed king by his troups. In medieval, early modern time considered to be the time when the West Roman Empire ends.
531 AD: The Thuringian kingdom under Herminafrid conquered by the Franks with Saxon auxiliary troups.
575 AD: The Visigoths invades the Suebian kingdom.
Marcomanni and Allemani:
8-3 BC: The Marcomanni king Maroboodus erects his reign inspired by the organization model of the Roman Empire.
19 AD: The Marcomanni reign of Maroboduus (inspired by Roman military organization) ends, and the Marcomannians go back to the Germanic tribe organization.
167-175 AD: Marcus Aurelius Caesar fights the Marcomanni and conquers a diminutive land area between Danuvius and Rhenus.
178-180 AD: Marcus Aurelius again fights the Marcomanni, this time without any gains.
213 AD: Allemanni attacks Roman Empire.
235-238 AD: Emperor Maximus Thrax defeats the Allemanni.
260-274 AD: Germanians (Allemanni, Saxons and Franks) invades Gallia Transalpina (area of France) causing anarchy and barbarian rule until Emperor Aurelianus reconquers it.
268 AD: Invading Allemanni are defeated somewhere in Noricum by Claudius II.
271 AD: The Allemanni are defeated at Pavia (Gallia Cisalpina - i.e. Lombardia).
375 AD: Valentinianus I defeats the Allemanni.
Alans and Jazygi:
nothing yet
Angles, Saxons and Jutes:
nothing yet
Burgunds:
c:a 400 AD: The Burgunds founds a first nation under king Gundahar.
436 AD: The first Burgundian reign is crushed by huns deviced by the Roman Magister Militium Aëtius.
443 AD: The Burgunds are admitted to found a foederati in the area of Saône and Rhône.
480 AD: The Roman Comander Gundebaud of the Burgundians becomes king for the Burgundian foederati.
516 AD: Gundebaud dies.
534 AD: The Burgundian Nation is destroyed by the Franks.

A late Migration Age Burgund nation emerges in connection with the splitup of Franconia in 561 AD. It ceases 613 AD when Franconia is united under Chlothar II.

Two Middle Age Burgund emerges 880 - Upper and Lower Burgund - around Rhône. They merged later, and further on they split again into Provence and Arelat.

A later still Burgund emerges 1363 as a result of the french Hundred Year War. It is northernmore situated than Upper Burgund, and is politically associated to Netherlands. It is split up between France and The German-Roman Empire in 1477.
Cimbres, Teutons and Ambrons:
c:a 120 BC: Cimbres, Teutons and Ambrons settle in Teutoburgium, Pannonia (current day Austria/Hungary).
113 BC: Cimbres, Teutons and Ambrons defeat a Roman army in Noreia, Raetia.
109 BC: once again in Gallia.
105 BC: and again at Arausio in Gallia.
102 BC: The Teutons and Ambrons are defeated by a Roman host at Aqua Sextiae, near Massilia (Marseille).
101 BC: The Cimbres are defeated at Vercellae in Gallia Cisalpina (Northern Italian plain).
13-9 BC: Pannonians (whoever are referred to, i don't know for sure whether this is a Cimbroteutonian remnant) are subdued by Agrippa.
6-9 AD: Pannonian uprise, settled down by emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar.
Cherusci:
12-9 BC: Drusus subdues Batavi, Frisians and Cherusci.
9 BC: Drusus dies at Albis (Elbe).
4-6 AD: Tiberius subdues the Langobards on the eastern side of Albis, aided by the Cherusci.
9 AD: A Roman army is disintegrated by a Cheruscian uprise under the chief's son Arminius in the Teutoburger wood.
Franks:
257 AD: The Franks, an alliance of a diversity of Germanian tribes, start to make raids into the Roman Empire.
260-274: Germanians (among others Allemanni, Saxons and Franks) push into Gallia Transalpina and causes anarchy and barbarian rule until Aurelianus retakes Gallia 274.
357: The Franks, who have pushed into Belgica, are defeated by Constantius II in the battle at Argentorarum (Strasbourg).
482: Chlodoweg crowned Franconian king.
486: The Franks, under Chlodoweg, crushes the Roman local governor Syagrius reign between Somme and Loire.
c:a 496: The Allemanni are defeated. The survivors join the Ostrogoths under Theoderic.
507: The Franks conquers the Gallian part of the Visigothic Kingdom, Aquitania, except a narrow strip at the Mediterranean Sea.
511: Chlodoweg dies in Lutetia (Paris).
531: The Thuringian Kingdom under king Herminafrid is conquered by the aid of Saxonian troups.
532-534: The Franks, under Chlothar I, Childebert I  and Theodebert I, conquers the Burgundian Kingdom.
534: The Burgundian Army is defeated in the battle at Autun.
535: The Ostrogoths recede their remaining territory in Allemannia.
539: Theodebert defeats the Ostrogoths and Byzantines, but doesn't succeed to occupy Northern Italy, which was the plan.
558: Chlothar I erected king.
558-561: Chlothar I succeeds to unite Franconia.
561: Chlothar I dies.
613: Chlothar II crowned king.

Thereafter the Franconian history continues on and on until France of today...
Gepids:
454: The Gepids, under Ardaric, destroys a coalition army of Huns and allies at river Nedao in Pannonia, and thereby the Hunnian reign ends. The Gepidian reign is erected in Dacia (current day Transylvania)
c:a 565 The Gepidian Nation is destroyed by the Langobards
Goths (any):
c:a 100 AD: The Goths settle in the Vistula (Wisla) area in current day Poland.
end of the 100:s: The Goths migrate towards Scythia (current day Ukraine).
beginning of the 200:s: The Goths settle finally in the Scythia area, inclusive in the Dacia area (current day Romania). The Bastarni are assimilated with the Goths.
236: First Gothic attacks on the Roman Empire.
238-244: Gordianus III defeats the Persians at Resaina (Syria) aided by Gothic auxilliary troups.
251: Decius Caesar fall under campaign against Gothic raiding parties under Kniwa in nothern Balkan.
254: A coalition of Goths, Quadi and Sarmati attacks the Empire.
264: A Gothic raid upon Cappadocia (Asia Minor), where the grandparents of later Bishop Wulfila are captured.
269: Goths battle Romans, under Claudius II, at the battle at Naissus. The Romans wins according to History, but...
270: The Romans recede Dacia, and Goths occupy it.
end of 200:s: The Visigoths and Ostrogoths constitute separate groups. Read more under Visigoths and Ostrogoths.
375: Valentinianus I performs campaigns against Goths
406: A Germanic coalition under the Goth Radagaisus raids into Italia, but they are beaten down.
500:s: The Gothic Codex Argenteus is written in Italia, possibly In Ravenna by the Bokareis Wiljarith.
unknown: Codex Argenteus reaches the monastery Werden (current day Essen, Germany).
1253: The Flemmish franciscan monk Willem van Ruysbroek reports about 'Goti' on Crimea who spoke a Germanic language.
end of 1500:s: The Bohemian (Czech) king and German-Roman Kaiser Rudolf II, acquires Codex Argenteus from the monastery to his Castle at Hradzin.
1563: The Flemmish diplomat Oghier Ghiselin van Busbecq writes and publishes a dictionary of more than 80 Crimean Gothic words as related by a Gothic-speaking Greek.
1648: The Swedes takes Codex Argenteus as war loot from Hradzin.
1650: The Dutch Isaac Vossius acquires Codex Argenteus from Queen Kristina of Sweden, as payment for an unpaid dept.
1654: Codex Argenteus is freighted to the Netherlands.
1662: The Swedish Count Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie buys Codex Argenteus and presents it to Uppsala University, where it currently resides.
c:a 1750: The last Gothic Remnant on Crimea is deported by Tsaritsa Catarina the Great of Russia, and thereby are lost.
Heruls:
nothing yet
Huns:
nothing yet
Langobards:
c:a 565: The Langobards destroys the Gepidian Reign
c:a 568: The Langobards enter the Po Plain, Nothern Italy
572: The Langobards conquer Pavia.
584: Authari crowned Langobardian king.
590: Authari deceases, Agilulf erected king.
after 590: Agilulf makes peace with the Franks and armistice with the Byzantines.
615: Agilulf dies.
638: Rothari erected Langobardian king.
643: Rothari authors Edictus Rothari, the Langobardian Law.
650: The Langobards concludes the conquest of whole Italia, excluding Ravenna, South Italia and Sicilia.
652: Rothari deceases. His successors become catholics.
661: Grimoald I crowned king, the County Benevent becomes annexed to Langobardia.
after 661: Franks, Byzantines, Avars and Slavs are successfully held back.
671: Grimoald dies, Langobardia are split up in feodal fashion.
712-744: Liutprand tries to reunite Langobardia by subduing the Counties Spoleto, Benevent, and conquer Ravenna and Rome. He doesn't succeed entirely.
749: Aistulf erected king.
751: Aistulf conquers Ravenna from Byzantium.
756: Aistulf deceases.
756: Count Desiderus of Toscana crowned king.
773: The Franks attack.
774: The Franks conquer the Northern Italian part of Langobardia. The County Benevent in South Italy remains Langobardian.
774-887: Langobardia is increasingly split up in small states, as the Franks loses their grip.
888-962: Many proponents for kingship fights without anyone getting full power.
888: Markcount Berengar of Friuli is crowned king.
891: Count Vido of Spoleto coerces the pope to erect him emperor. He claims heirship from the Langobardian Kingdom.
892: Count Lambert of Spoleto coerces the pope to erect him emperor. He claims heirship from the Langobardian Kingdom. (No typo, same as above!)
894: Count Vido dies. Arnulf of Kärnten is acknowledged king.
896: Arnulf is crowned emperor.
after 896: Arnulf abandons Langobardia and returns to Bayuvaria.
898: Count Lambert dies.
899: Berengar is defeated by the Magyars (Hungarians) at Brenta, and must pay revenue.
900: Louis of Provence crowned to king in Pavia.
901: Louis erected emperor in Rome.
905: Louis is defeated and blinded by Berengar, so he returns to Provence.
915: Berengar is erected emperor.
918: The Arabs attack Reggio.
Ostrogoths:
258: The Ostrogoths occupy Crimea, where some of them remain until the end of the 18th century.
375: The Ostrogothic reign in Scythia (current day Ukraine) is destroyed by the Huns. The Ostrogothic king Ermanaric commits suicide. The Ostrogoths are subdued by Attila.
454: The Ostrogoths take part at the losing side in the battle at Nedao where Gepids under Ardaric crushes the last Hun coalition. The Ostrogoths become souvereign.
456: The Ostrogoths settle in Pannonia.
471: Theoderic Amali is elected king over a large fraction of the Ostrogoths.
473: The Ostrogoths raids in southern Balkan.
481: Theoderic Amalis worst competitor, Theoredic Strabo dies in a hunting accident.
484: Theoderic is elected Magister Militium (general) and Patricius over Italy by the East-Roman emperor Zeno.
488: The Ostrogoths breaks up for Italia in order to defeat king Odoacer of a Scirian dominated Germanian coalition.
493: The Ostrogoths gain control over Italia, and Theoderic becomes king over Italia as a foederati under East-Rome.
c:a 496: The Allemanni are defeated. The remnants of the Allemanni join the Ostrogothic nation.
in the 500:s: The Codex Argenteus is written.
507: Papal schism in Rome, where Theoderic is forced to chose a candidate, a converted pagan, Symmachus. Theoderic got the blame for the bad quality of this Symmachus.
511: Theoderic becomes king also for Visigothia, as a regency for his under-aged grandson Amalarik, son of the deceased Alarik II over Visigothia.
524: The philosopher Boëthius and his father-in-law Symmachus are executed for treason, presumably being innocent.
526: Theoderic dies in Ravenna. Theoderics daughter Amalasuinta assumes regency for her under-aged son Athalaric. The Visigoths become independent.
534: Athalaric dies. Amalasuinta marries her cousin Theodahad, who is elected coruler.
535: Teodahad murders Amalasuinta. Ostrogothia is attacked by the Byzantines under Belisarius and Narses.
536: Teodahad is murdered. Vitiges is elected king over the Ostrogoths.
537-538: Rome, which is occupied by the Byzantines, is besieged by the Ostrogoths.
540: Vitiges is captured by Belisarius after the siege of Ravenna, and he recedes the kingship. Ostrogothia is now almost defeated. A Gothic/Italian uprise occurs in northern Italia.
540: Hildebad is elected king, but is murderet after less than a year.
541-552: Totila becomes Ostrogothian king, and reconquers successively almost whole Italia.
551: Jordanes authors "De Origines Actibusque Getarum", that describes the Gothic history according to their own traditions. The still available text took much information from the now lost Gothic History by Theoderics minister Cassiodorus.
552: Totila falls against the Byzantines under Narses at Tadinae.
552: Teja erected Ostrogothic king, but falls after a few months at the last major battle at Mons Lactarius.
561: The last Gothic rebellion is put down.
c:a 1100: The Gothic language ceases to be spoken ... as much as many believe. ¹)

¹) I don't believe it myself of course. Someone have tried to make that estimate by searching administratiev papers for Gothic names. My name is Tomas, but i'm no Greek. There are still names in Italy with obvious Langobardian origin. Whether Langobardian is still spoken in Italy we don't precisely know. There's a Germanic Language, Cimbrian, spoken in some northern Italy towns, most vindicate that it is a Bayuvarian dialect, but a few have claimed it to have some Langobardian origin... I believe that we cannot know when Gothic ceased to be spoken.
Suebi:
409-411: The Vandals, Suebi and Alans enter the Pyrenaean Peninsula, and split it up in four territories.
418: The Silingian Vandals and Alani are crushed by Visigoths.
429: The Hasdingian Vandals leave Iberia for Africa.
438: The Suebian king Hermeneric abdicates and is succeeded by Rechila.
439: Mérida conquered by the Suebi.
441: Sevilla conquered.
448: Rechila succeeded by Rechiarius.
455-456: The Suebian kingdom collapses from Visigothic attacks, after near complete conquest of the Pyrenean Peninsula. The remaining Suebian areas in Galicia are ruled by competing warlords.
c:a 550: Suebia consolidates to a kingdom once again.
c:a 560: The Suebian kings convert to Catholicism.
575: The Visigoths conquers the Suebian State in Iberia.
Vandals:
406: A giant host of Barbarians, among others Vandals (Silingi and Hasdingi), Quadi, Suebi and Alans pass the Roman border and raids heavily in Gallia.
409-411: The Vandals, Suebi and Alans enter the Pyrenaean Peninsula, and split it up in four territories.
416-418: The Silingian Vandals and the Alans are defeated by the Visigothic king Wallia. The Hasdingian Vandals remain in Andalusia, whereto the remnants of the losing warriors join.
428: Geiseric erected Vandal king.
429: The Vandals cross the Mediterranean Sea to occupy Africa (i.e. in an area centered around the current day Tunisia).
430: The Vandals capture Hippo Regius.
439: The Vandals capture Carthago.
442: Rome formally recedes Africa, and Vandalia is acknowledged a souvereign state.
455-467: The Vandals raid Rome (455), Sardinia and Corsica (456), Calabria (461), East Rome (467).
474: All Vandal occupations are acknowledged by emperor Zeno (East Rome).
477: Geiseric deceases.
535: The Vandal Reign is finally crushed by the East Roman general Belisarius.
Visigoths:
340: Bishop Wulfila begins to mission among Visigoths.
347: Wulfila, and adherents, are forced to leave the Gothic area north of Danuvius (Donau/Duna/Dunarea), for settlement in Moesia (current day Bulgaria) as Gothi Minores.
376: After the Hun catastrophy, a large host of Visigoths, under the kings Alaviv and Athalaric, gets permission to settle in Moesia, by the East Roman emperor Valens. Because of provision hardships, they soon rebel.
378: Emperor Valens is killed at Hadrianapolis, in a campaign to put down the rebellion.
379: The Visigoths gain permission from emperor Theodosius I to settle in Moesia and Thracia.
382: Theodosius I concludes a new peace and settlement treaty with the Visigoths.
383: Bishop Wulfila dies.
395: Alaric elected Visigothic king.
397-401: Visigoths, under Alaric, raids Balkan, but are convinced to leave Balkan by electing Alaric Magister Militium over Illyricum (current day Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia).
401-410:Visigoths, under Alaric, raids the Italian Peninsula.
402: Alaric is pushed back by Stilicho at Pollenza ...
403: and at Verona.
408: Rome besieged by the Visigoth after the death of Stilicho. Alaric ends the siege after receiving a huge ransom.
409: The Visigoths besieges the West Roman emperor Honorius in Ravenna without gain.
410: The Visigoths captures and loots Rome.
410: Alaric dies in Cosenza, southern Italia, when planning to cross the Mediterranean Sea for Africa.
411: Alaric's brother-in-law, Athaulf succeeds Alaric.
415: Athaulf dies, and his brother Wallia, succeeds him.
418: Wallia founds the Tolosan Visigothic Reign in Gallia.
418: Theodorid (or Theoderic I) is elected Visigothic king.
451: The battle at the Catalaunian Fields, where a Gothic-Roman dominated coalition under Aëtius pushes back a Hun-dominated attack force under Attila. The Visigothic king Theodorid falls under the battle.
453: Theodorids son Theoderic (II) elected Visigothic king.
466: Theoderic deceases, and is succeeded by Euric.
470: Euric authors Codex Euricianus.
c:a 475: The Visigothic foederati treaty is redrawn, and Visigothia becomes formally a souvereign state.
484: Eurik deceases, and is succeeded by Alaric II.
507: The Visigoths are defeated by the Franks under Chlodoweg.
after 507: The Visigoths lose almost all territory in Gallia, but compensates themselves by expanding into Iberia (Spain).
551: Byzantium conquers a southern land strip in Iberia.
568: Leowigild erected Visigothic king. He makes Toledo Visigothic capital.
after 568: The Visigoths reconqers the Bysantine land in Iberia.
575: The Visigoths conquers the Suebian State in Iberia.
579: While Leowigild is fighting in the north, his son Hermenegild rebels. He also take side for the Catholics in the Catholic-Arian fight for dominance.
c:a 582: Hermenegilds forces are defeated, and Hermenegild is exiled and killed.
586: Leowigild deceases. His successor is Reccared I.
587: Reccared converts to Catholicism, and after him the Gothic nobility.
589: The Arian church in Visigothia is dissolved.
601: Reccared dies.
633: The Visigoths introduces elections for king.
649: Reccesuint elected king.
c:a 654: Reccesuint authors Lex Visigothorum, valid for both Goths and Romans.
672: Reccesuint deceases, and is succeeded by Wamba. The stories claim him to be coerced into it.
680: Wamba is dethroned and coerced into monastery. He is succeeded by Erwig.
694: Erwig dies, and his son-in-law Egica, succeeds him.
702: Egica deceases.
711: Arabs under the Berber general Tariq ibn Ziyad, crush the Visigothic Reign under Roderic. They conquer successively all Visigothic territory.
721: The last Visigothic recidense in Narbonne falls to the Arabs.
732: The Franks, under Charles Martell, defeats the Arabs at Poitiers, and conquers the Arab held land strip in Gallia. The governor Abd ar-Rahman falls during the battle.