Sack of Rome

Sack of Rome may refer to:

Historical events involving the city of Rome

• Battle of the Allia (390 or 387/6 BC), by the Gauls under Brennus
• Sack of Rome (410), by the Visigoths under Alaric
• Sack of Rome (455), by the Vandals under Geiseric
• Sack of Rome (546), by the Ostrogoths under Totila
• Sack of Rome (1084), by the Normans under Robert Guiscard
• Sack of Rome (1527), by the mutinous troops of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Other

• Le sac de Rome, an essay by French art historian Andre Chastel
• "Sack of Rome", an exceptional victory in a chess tournament in Rome by Sofia Polgar
• The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi, a book by Alexander Stille
• The Sack of Rome (film), a 1920 Italian film depicting the 1527 historical event

See also

• Siege of Rome (disambiguation)
• Capture of Rome, the final event in Italian unification