You left out:
1. The sacking of Rome by the Alaric & his Visigoths 24 August 410, Genseric and his Vandals 455 AD, the Ostrogoths 476 AD, Robert Guiscard and his Normans 1084 He did rescue the Pope but slaughtered and sold into slavery much of the population. & Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor (Austrians mostly!) May 1527.
2. The Plague of Justinian - 541–542 AD, with recurrences until 750. Probably was instrumental in allowing the spread of the plague of Islam which we still suffer from.
3. The volcanic winter of 536 AD was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. Called the worst year to be alive; worldwide mass starvation occurred. The volcanic winter was caused by at least three simultaneous eruptions of uncertain origin, with several possible locations proposed in various continents. It also weakened civilization and contributed to the spread of Islam.
4. Black Plagues 1 (1347 to 1351) & 2 (2 was particularly widespread in the following years: 1360–63; 1374; 1400; 1438–39; 1456–57; 1464–66; 1481–85; 1500–03; 1518–31; 1544–48; 1563–66; 1573–88; 1596–99; 1602–11; 1623–40; 1644–54; and 1664–67.
All cited by writers and religious figures of the times as being apocalyptic events!
Reily “you left out...”
Ooh, you’re correct.
And both of us kept this as Eurocentric, not even touching upon the plight of Christians in Sassanid Persia or the genocide by Tamerlane
Islam wouldn’t arise for nearly another 100 years in 632. The weather was fairly good by then. In 732 Islam was threatening Europe but got pushed back.