{"slug": "heruli", "label": "Heruli", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heruli", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220643", "qid": "Q220643", "description": "historical ethnical group", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [262, 551], "span_label": ["262 CE", "551 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "odoacer", "label": "Odoacer", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "justinian-i", "label": "Justinian I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "narses", "label": "Narses", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gepids", "label": "Gepids", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "black-sea", "label": "Black Sea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aegean-sea", "label": "Aegean Sea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 262, "year_label": "262 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Heruls accompany the Goths, ravaging the coasts of the Black Sea and the Aegean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325890529#Roman_Empire", "title": "262", "revid": 1325890529, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 267, "year_label": "267 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Heruli invade the Black Sea coast; they unsuccessfully attack Byzantium and Cyzicus. The Roman fleet defeats the Herulian fleet (500 ships) but allows them to escape into the Aegean Sea, where they raid the islands of Lemnos and Skyros.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367427906#Roman_Empire", "title": "267", "revid": 1367427906, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 269, "year_label": "269 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Heruli capture Athens and raid the Aegean Islands as far as Crete and Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371227782#Roman_Empire", "title": "269", "revid": 1371227782, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 286, "year_label": "286 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter/Spring: The Caesar Maximian defeats the Bagaudae rebellion in Gaul. He then defeats a Germanic invasion into Gaul, defeating an army of Burgundians and Alemanni and another army of Chaibones and Heruli.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554179#Roman_Empire", "title": "286", "revid": 1326554179, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 360, "year_label": "360 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Huns invade the Pontic steppes by the thousands, spreading terror as they take over territories held for generations by Alans, Heruls, Ostrogoths and Visigoths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332419195#Europe", "title": "AD 360", "revid": 1332419195, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Attila gathers his vassals—Bastarnae, Gepids, Heruls, Ostrogoths, Rugians, Scirians and Thuringians (among others), and smashes through Germany, causing widespread panic and destruction. He arrives in Belgica with an army (50,000 men) and crosses the Rhine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 454, "year_label": "454 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Nedao: Allied forces of subjected peoples (Gepids, Heruli, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Sciri and Suebi), under the leadership of King Ardaric, defeat the Huns under Ellac, eldest son of Attila the Hun, in Pannonia. Ellac is killed during the battle and succeeded by his brother Dengizich.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747737#Europe", "title": "454", "revid": 1364747737, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 470, "year_label": "470 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Odoacer becomes the leader of the Germanic tribes (Herulic – Scirian foederati) in Northern Italy (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333241735#Europe", "title": "470", "revid": 1333241735, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic/Scirian foederati), visits the imperial palace at Ravenna. He petitions Orestes (magister militum) to reward his mercenaries for their services and their support of his rebellion a year earlier, by making good on his promise to grant them lands to settle permanently in Italy. Orestes refuses this proposal and Odoacer leads his tribesmen in a revolt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#Roman_Empire", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 491, "year_label": "491 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theodoric the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric repulses the attack, forcing Odoacer back into Ravenna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368214657#Europe", "title": "491", "revid": 1368214657, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 533, "year_label": "533 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails in 500 transports, escorted by 92 war vessels (dromons), manned by 20,000 seamen from Constantinople, to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily. The fleet carries 10,000 infantry, about half Byzantine and half foederati, and 5,000 cavalry, consisting of 3,000 Byzantine horsemen, 1,000 foreign allies (Huns and Heruli) and 1,500 of Belisarius' retainers (bucellarii). On the flagship Belisarius is accompanied by his military secretary Procopius, and his wife Antonina.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793764#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "533", "revid": 1340793764, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 545, "year_label": "545 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Justinian I sends Narses, Byzantine general, to the rulers of the Heruli, to recruit troops for the campaigns in Italy and Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340799600#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "545", "revid": 1340799600, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 551, "year_label": "551 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "After the death of his cousin Germanus, Justinian I appoints Narses new supreme commander, and returns to Italy. In Salona on the Adriatic coast, he assembles a Byzantine expeditionary force totaling 20,000 or possibly 30,000 men and a contingent of foreign allies, notably Lombards, Heruls and Bulgars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362066549#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "551", "revid": 1362066549, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}