Migration Era TL

This is continued from here:https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256049


Some History (100 AD-422 AD)
AD 100- POD!! The Slavs and Balts diverge differently.
AD 250- Borusci invade Scandinavia.
AD 253- Goths move West, they are now based out of Norway.
AD 257- First Goths begin to Migrate to Pictland.
AD 273- The Roman Civil War of 271 Ends, Emperor Justinian divides the Empire into the Souther Empire, Western Empire, and Eastern Empire.
AD 301- Huns arrive in Europe, and begin to invade the Eastern Roman Empire.
AD 302- Alans and Vandals begin to move into the Roman Empire, settling Land.
AD 302- A Small Hunnish Army goes (diverges) North, displacing the Suevs, sending them North, they are then kicked out of there by the Saxons and goe to Britain.
AD 304- Unrelated to the Huns, the Angles begin to move into Britain.
AD 304- The Vandals split into the Ostvandals, who go to the Balkans, and the Visivandals, who go to Helvetia.
AD 306- Teutons begin to move north, slightly because they are pushed by the Saxons, who were Pushed by the Suevs, who were pushed by the Huns.
AD 307- At the Battle of Adrianople, the Huns are pushed back, and zet up a Kingdom at Vinbona.
AD 323- Some Borusci head to Gotaland, and fight the Teutons there.
AD 324- Finns move to Sweden.
AD 353- Alban Tribes (OTL Scottish), begin to move into Wales in Small Numbers.
AD 375- Barbarossa the Hun, rallies his horde and advances west.
AD 377- A battle between the Huns and Alamanni send the Alamanni North.
AD 379- Barbarossa sacks Besancon.
AD 383- Barbarossa sacks Lutetia, and stays there for a few years.
AD 388- Alamanni and Franks clash, the Alamanni win, and the Franks begin moving Southwards.
AD 394- Hormidac Sacks Venice.
AD 394- Hormidac attacks the Antonian Wall after sacking Parma and Mutina.
AD 395- Hormidac and An Army of Visivandal Auxiliaries storm the Wall and reach Rome, they are persuaded to leave after being given much money.
AD 395- Hormidacs Huns leave the Empire and Go to Sack Constantinople, they are defeated deep in Thrace.
AD 399- Barbarossa begins to come into Contact with Frankish Leaders, who have massive armys ready North of Lutetia, the Huns move South.
AD 401- After Returning to Burgundala, Barbarossa sets up his own Hunnish Kingdom There.
AD 414- Gnaeus Lucius Crassus is sent to Britain to be the Governor There.
AD 414- The Current Governer of Britain Kenneth Lucius Plautius, refuses to Give up his position, he kills Gnaeus Lucius Crassus, and declares his kingdom independent.
AD 414- Kenneth gathers Pictish, Gothic, and Picto-Irish Leaders in the North, and Kills them all, then the Picts, Goths, and Picto-Irish form an alliance and invade Britain.
AD 414- Roman General Ahenobarbus Albus, contunes the war against the enemys in the South.
AD 417- Ahenobarbus Albus retrets into the Midlands, forming his own Kingdom.
AD 418- The Kingdom of Alba was formed in Wales (It is similar to O.T.L. Scotland.).
AD 422- Roman Influence Gone From, Britain, as the Emperor Romlus Agustus declares the Island unreconquerable.
 
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It would be the Borusci who would be invading parts of Scandanavia since the Licusii don't have access to the sea yet.
 
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Brittania in the Fourth Century A.D.
Part 1 (400-414)
During the early fourth century AD, the land known as Pictland, was in the South, Bordered by Roman Brittania, a corrupt place run by Governers who acted as kings, many of whom were half-native. In Pictland, in the Coastal Areas, the Goths Lived, they were migrants from Southern Sweden, who were organized into small tribes, who often banded together against the Pictish peoples who lived in the Highlands. In the west, on a few islands, the Picto-Irish lived, they were a merger of Irish Immigrants to Pictland, and the native Picts. It had been like that for 200 years, and there was no sign of change, until, in 414, Roman Gneaus Lucius Crassus, appointed by the Emperor, arrived in Britain to taek Power from the Governer, Kenneth Lucius Plautius, whose mother was a Picto-Irish. Kenneth had no intention of giving up Brittania, so when Gneaus arrived, he was killed by Kenneths agents. With the nearest Roman Military Outposts in Gaul facing attacks from [GERMANIC TRIBES], noone would be able to attack Kenneth. So, drunk with power, Kenneth declared an Independent Kingdom of Brittania. With that, Kenneth invited the Goth, Pict, and Picto-Irish Leaders to a meeting north of Hadrians Wall. He killed them all. Enraged, the Goths, Picts, and Picto-Irish formed a Coalition and assulted Roman Brittania.

Part 2(414-422 A.D.).

In the year 414 Anno Domini, the Combined Pictish, Gothic, and Picto-Irish Forces assualted Hadrians Walls. The small garrison, suprised at the news from Londinium that Kenneth had taken power of the Province as his own kingdom. But when the vast army came in from the North, around Coria, the wall was only about half-manned, as it was a holiday. The Army smashed down a gate, then rampaged into the town of Coria, killing most of the inhabitants, then sending a messenger to Londinium to advise Kenneth to surrender. Enraged, Kenneth ordered the forces available , which was the meager Legio VI Victrix. They rallied North of Londinium at Verulanium. From there, they marched north, while picking up local forces. At the town of Lindum, a major town in Brittania on the night of August 18. The army of Kenneth Plautius numbered 3,000. While the Coalition of the "Barbarians" had at least 2,500. On a field east of Lindum, the Romans were arranged in a line, blocking the path to the city. The Picts and Goths charged them, and most were killed, and the remaineder retreated, they were followed by a unit of Roman Cavalry, who cleaned up some of the Pict and Goth Troops as the infantry pilllaged the bodies. That night, as the Romans celebrated, a Goth opened the Gate to Lindum, the Gothic Cavalry swarmed in and attacked the Romans, and by the next night, Kenneth was killed.

As the news of Kenneths death reached south, the loyalty to Kenneth faltered, and many petty leaders rose up. In the east Frisian Settlers Landed, marching on Londinium the next year. In the North, the Goths spread south, spreading into O.T.L. Northumbria. Still Further North, the Picts moved into the Lowlands. In the Midlands, a Romano-Briton Leader Ahenobarbus Albus, formerly commander of the Legio VI Victrix, formed a kingdom later known as Iurdeypp to the later Friso-Suevians. In Hibernia, the Irish sallied forth, invading Wales and forming a kingdom. In the Cornish lands, the Vascones arrived from Vasconia. The Angles and Saxons arrived on the eastern coast setting up small settlements. By 422, Roman influence was practically gone from Brittania.
 
As I have been researching the Migration Era recently, I plan on restarting this timeline. Here is the next installment!
Europe: 422-500
AD 422- Wesern Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is killed and his son, Johannus takes over.
AD 423-WesternRoman Emperor Johannus is killed by the Praetorian Guards, who by this time are made up of Germans.
AD 423- Leader of the Praetorian Guards, Wulfric, ascends the throne of Empreror.
AD 424- Wulfric invades The Hunnic Kingdom in Gaul.
AD 424- Barbarossa the Hun is killed by Western Roman Troops during the Seige of Burgundala.
AD 425- Wulfric becomes one of the First Roman Emperors actually liked for the last hundred years.
AD 425- Wulfric comes to an alliance with the Tribes of the North, offering to let them settle as Confoedrati, who will reside on the frontier and defend the home provinces of Rome.
AD 435- Ten years of relative peace end in the Western Roman Empire when the armys of the Kingdom of Hispania attack southern Gaul.
AD 436- Wulfric leads the armys of Rome over the Pyrannees and defeats the Hispanic Armys, he then sacks a few citys and returns north.
AD 437- Wulfric orders the construction of a wall extending across the Pyrannees, it is known as the Wulfish Wall.
AD 437- Meanwhile Wulfric orders his armys to take Vindobona from the Kingdom of the Huns, which sends the Huns into a stateless group.
AD 438- The Bulgars attack Thrace.
AD 439- The Bulgars take Adrianople.
AD 439- German Tribes in the Northern Balkans begin to move south, and attack Byzantine Greece.
AD 439- The Bulgars beseige Constantinople.
AD 440- The Bulgars are beaten back from Constantinople as the armys of the Eastern Roman Empire move towords Greece.
AD 441- Greece is secure from the Germans.
AD 444- Wulfric is called to Venice, as the merchents there speak of forming a Republic.
AD 444- Wulfrics son attempts a rebellion in Rome.
AD 444- Wulfric returns to Rome and kills his son, but Venice has left the empire.
AD 444- Venice negotiates to allow the Ostvandals, recently arrived from Greece, to go into the Western Roman Empire.
AD 445- The Ostvandals arrive in Northern Italy, and move south, killing and sacking all that lies in their path.
AD 445- The Ostvandals sack Rome.
AD 446- Wulfric and the remains of the empire flee to Corsica. The Western Part of the Roman empire is now Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, and Africa.
AD 447- Frankish and Burgundian forces attack Spain.
AD 450- As the Frankish and Burgundian armys arrive in Lusitania, Hispania is lost for the Roman Empire.
AD 452- Frisians, having conquered London and the Southeast, come into conflict with the Goths.
AD 456- The Goths attack the Frisians.
AD 456- The Frisians enlist the help of the Saxons, seafarers, to attack the Goths.
AD 458- The Goths are finally brought their knees as the Frisians and Saxons defeat them. The Saxons are granted land to settle the lands around Amble.
AD 460- The Roman garrison at Gibralter, defending Africa against barbarian incursions is overrun.
AD 462- After a few years of fighting, the barbarians are pushed back into Spain and Gibralter is restored as the Roman "defense of africa".
AD 467- Pope Leo II moves to Corsica with the Roman Emperor Wulfric after enraging the Lombard ruler of central italy.
AD 468- The "Irish" of Western Britain come into conflict with the Goths.
AD 470- The Bulgars once again attack Constantinople.
AD 472- Emperor Wulfric is assassinated in Corsica by a general from Africa.
AD 472- A General in Africa proclaims his own kingom in Carthage and throws the Western (Roman) Empire into civil war.
AD 472- Troops in Gibralter, with the collapse of authority from Corsica, abandon their posts.
AD 472- Burgundians and Frankish peoples enter Africa.
AD 473- With the Roman Army collapsed, Lombards sack Corsica, and destroy the church.
AD 474- Byzantine troops take Sicily and Sardinia to protect it from Barbarian attacks.
AD 476- The General in Carthage is victorious and defeats the remenents of Wulfrics sucsessors.
AD 477- All Parts of the Church in Byzantium, the only christian power, are orthodox.
AD 478- Burgundians overrun Carthage.
AD 479- The Jutes begin to migrate to Britain, especially in the Northumbria area.
AD 485- A Frankish kingdom is set up in Spain.
AD 490- A Bulgar leader forms a Bulgar Puppet of the Byzantines.
AD 492- Christianity is all but wiped out in the former western empire.
AD 495- The first Alamanni kingdom is formed in the OTL Netherlands.
AD 499- Slavs begin to enter Northern Byzantium.
AD 499- The Byzantine economy is reformed.
 
I look forward to more stuff, indeed a map would help :); I like the idea of a stronger Frisian and Gothic presence in Brittania, and a "Scotland" where Wales is located IOTL (I had a similar idea once, basically switching Wales and Scotland around in terms of culture and government, to keep an independent and prosperous Briton state without totally butterflying England or Scotland).

I would ask, though, what you mean by Christianity being "wiped out" in the WRE? I though the Goths and other Migration-era people on the mainland were being Christianized by this point? And what of the Celtic peoples in the islands?
 
I would ask, though, what you mean by Christianity being "wiped out" in the WRE? I though the Goths and other Migration-era people on the mainland were being Christianized by this point? And what of the Celtic peoples in the islands?
Since there was no church at this point, and the closest authority the Patriarch in Constantinople, it was my assumption that christianity was not spreading and many were converting back to paganism.

The Celts are taking over the west of Britain in OTL Wales (Irish) while the Picts are in Scotland.
 
Here is a map of Europe in the Year 500 AD.

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Borusci and Licusii are both Balts, Licusii are the Balts in Poland while the Borusci are the Balts in Scandanavia and the Baltic, it seems that the Kuyavans/Sloveni/Slavs are under pressure now.
 

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This is an interesting timeline. Do plan to deal with the slavic migrations as well?
 

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Well I don't really plan things out long term so I don't know what will happen to the Slavs, but they will be covered. Any suggestions?
Well the slavic tribes, if pushed out of the balkans could invade Germany, but not any more westward. France, England, etc is ASB. Also, I don't know how but it might be possible to have them invade Persia.
 
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