I think the worst year for the Roman Empire was, when Honnorius came to power and when Ricimer killed Majorian!!!

@zarategabe

3 ай бұрын

That marked the death spiral of the Western Empire

542, Plague of Justinian was fucking brutal

@zarategabe

3 ай бұрын

The plague and later Arab invasions 80 years later basically ended the Roman's time as a global superpower. After the early 600s, they would remain just a regional power and never anything more. And the real damaging part of the plague is that it would come in waves every so many years which would constantly beat down on the populations.

@legiohysterius4624

2 ай бұрын

But I also stopped the sassinids from maintaining their massive gains and crippled their army

@MasteIsIllmatic

2 ай бұрын

@@legiohysterius4624the plague did?

@williamgill5286

2 ай бұрын

​@@MasteIsIllmaticno he says he did, him, by himself, the commenter said I

1071. The loss at Manzikert had a domino effect that led to the permanent loss of Asia Minor to the Turks

@avatarwan5824

3 ай бұрын

It was not Manzikert, but rather the Civil Wars that followed.

@user-ti6jh8ij9c

3 ай бұрын

@@avatarwan5824ye

@antiepix9555

Ай бұрын

DAMN YOU, ANDRONIKOS DOUKAS!!!

Majicert is a major contender. It was the point of no return because even with the western part of the empire gone the east almost re conquered it

@Blaqjaqshellaq

3 ай бұрын

I think of the Covid crisis as Hollywood's Manzikert...

@catnaut9035

3 ай бұрын

Um no, the Komnenid restoration shows that manzikert could be recovered from. However 1204 was all three nail in the coffin

@zarategabe

3 ай бұрын

The civil war which happened after the Battle of Manizkert and overthrowing of Romanos IV Diogenes, which killed off many skilled warriors who could have helped defend Anatolia, and which put the Romans in a terrible state of military uncertainty, was probably more traumatic than the loss at Manizkert itself.

542ad Plague of Justinian MUST be the worst

@zarategabe

3 ай бұрын

The continuing waves of plague that hit every few years might have been worse than the first bubonic plague of 542 itself. Archaeologists and historians still aren't in agreement as to how damaging the plague of 542 really was because the functioning of state kept moving along as normal and the historical events didn't deviate much from what they were going to end up doing anyway.

While there isn't universal agreement among historians on the single worst year of the Roman Empire, several pivotal years are often cited as particularly tumultuous or disastrous. One such year is AD 476, when the Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer. This event marked the traditional end of the Western Roman Empire and symbolized the culmination of centuries of decline and instability.

@michaelwu7678

Ай бұрын

Lol why are you quoting Wikipedia

The deaths of both roles great defenders

I think its all off the 3rd century, theres a reason why they call it the "crisis of the 3rd century", its the worst time in roman history. I think that started the domino effect which sadly resulted in the western empires fall

The worst part was us🇮🇷🇮🇹 fighting for 700 years

@zippyparakeet1074

3 ай бұрын

And 🇬🇷

@beats_en_bgm5774

2 ай бұрын

Niggas fought each others to end up by Some desert tribes😂😂😂 (they called them desert tribes but the tribes showed them who they are)

@idk-cj8mn

Ай бұрын

The Persians never had a chance of reaching Rome, and the Roman Empire was too focused on fighting other fronts to ever actually defeat Persia, getting the perisan capital wasn't enough to defeat them, even if the Romans got it 5 times the Persians took it back every time eventually. Bringing the entire Roman army to the Persian front was impossible, but after all the roman-persian wars the two countries decided to stop attacking eachother, almost no civilians were harmed in any of the wars either, so it wasn't that much of a bad time for the two. The Roman and Persian rivalry is one of the best in history for sure 🇮🇹🇮🇷

@Persianguy83

Ай бұрын

@@idk-cj8mnthe long wars lead to the the fall of Sassanian and byzantine empire such a shame

536, also during the plague of Justinian but also a mini ice age. And not long after Rome was sacked. Pretty bad

It's either 407 or 602 for sure

Battle of yarmuk, which eventually led to the lose of the Levant, Egypt and North Africa.

Just give me my home back. I can't stop dreaming. The dream called Rome.

1071 loss of Asia Minor and Magna Graecia

For the city of Rome may I add 549, the second sack by Totila. For the Empire, it might also have been the death of Manuel I Komnenos in 1180. His reign was the last when the Roman Empire was still a big political and military power in the Mediterranean.

@turtle926

3 ай бұрын

tortilla lmao 😂

When they tried, but failed to build hyperloop

406-10 AD was possibly the worst few years for Rome. The execution of Stilicho, the massacre of the barbarian foederati and their wives and children that caused 30,000 troops to defect to Rome’s enemies, which directly lead to the sacking of Rome in 410. The crossing of the Rhine in 406 by millions and millions of barbarian tribal warriors and their families invading into Roman territory, Honorius just sat in his palace while everything was falling apart and letting all of his advisors make the decisions- the unexplainable increased aggression towards the barbarians after the betrayal of Stilicho when Rome was in no position to do so. Just an all around sad and disgraceful sequence of events for the greatest empire in history. Also not to mention that the crossing of the Rhine was caused by the looming threat of the Huns against Rome

The sacking of Rome definitely sucked

You left out 536ad which is generally considered by most historians to have been the worst year in recorded human history.

@willfakaroni5808

3 ай бұрын

It was one historian not most

378 because they lost the entire Eastern army, the emperor and all the equipment that the Barbarians armed themselves with afterwards. Even though the Eastern empire survived it took alot of resources from the west to protect the east during that time which weakened the western empire greatly

I would say 542, as that period has been called the worst period to be alive in history, period. (I think 528 is considered the worst to be alive.) A morbid fact: I saw that the COVID-19 pandemic has killed more people than the Antonine plague. :( Considering how disruptive the COVID pandemic was in the 21st century, I wonder how disruptive the pandemics of antiquity were for Ancient Rome.

@andreweaston1779

3 ай бұрын

Just remember, covid might have killed more, but we have orders of magnitude more people now. It's % of population which counts, not absokute numbers.

@romainvicta7392

3 ай бұрын

Definitely more so than Covid. Covid may have comparable numbers of deaths to some of the plagues in the age of antiquity but if u look at it as a proportion of the entire population then Covid is no where close. The devastation would have been insane. Imagine 1/3 ppl you know dying and the cities being so bare after all the deaths.

@andrewpestotnik5495

3 ай бұрын

The Human population in 2020 was 40× larger than it was in 500/600 AD.

@hansvonmannschaft9062

3 ай бұрын

In the Country where I live, some 55,000+ Covid deaths were reported. But in the past two years, doctors and more doctors came out saying that during 2020, they were forced to put "Covid" as cause of death to anyone who died, whether they fell off a bridge, car crash, or even took way too many pills. So now we don't know what the real number is, and it's the 21st Century. What was the real number back then?

Hannibal post Cannae battle 🤔

Battle of Adrianople for me

I’m first also nice vid very informative and helpful 👍👌😊

I think it was 410ad when the city was sacked by Alaric.Rome was the light of the world for over 800 years and I don’t think it ever fully recovered.

This has got to be the most video. Was it, or was it, or was it, or was it, or was it, or was it

Might as well say 536 AD

1204, from dark age barbarians did a second wholescale destroying of classical antiquity legacy, on an unprepared Constantinople

And people think we have problems now….

Year 636 was worst year for Eastern Roman Empire in this year the Empire suffered a defeat from which it never recovered.

How about the murder or Julius Caesar which created it?

My money is on the plagues of Antoine and Cyprean. These plagues were the direct cause of the Roman decline as they killed millions of people. Some estimates are as high as 40% of the entire population. Without these plagues, Rome would never have suffered the severe Manpower shortage it had in the third century. The Manpower shortage affected every industry within the empire, but more importantly it affected the military. The Army was no longer able to fill its ranks and Rome found that their army was only half as large as it once was. This is why Barbarian invasions became more frequent in the third century. It's directly what caused the crisis of the third century, and it's amazing that Rome even survived that century. But despite the Empire survival, the empire was in Decline after this crisis, from which it never recovered from. From this point on the Empire would continue to succumb to Manpower shortages which resulted in more frequent invasions, more frequent civil unrest, and far more rampant corruption that had ever experienced before the third century.

275, when the Roman Empire officially withdrew from Dacia. /s

@zippyparakeet1074

3 ай бұрын

What. That's literally the weakest contender.

@romainvicta7392

3 ай бұрын

@@zippyparakeet1074that’s what makes it funny

@zarategabe

3 ай бұрын

One of the most minor setbacks in Roman history 😆

Not the Roman EMPIRE as such, but 216 BC. Cannae was a NIGHTMARE.

I'm certain you can find some Turkish people who will tell you it was 1922 when the Ottoman empire definitively dissolved.

@Rynewulf

3 ай бұрын

I mean the Ottoman Sultans were styled as Kaiser-I Rum, and recognised as Basileus by the Ecumenical Patriarch, and ruled from the imperial capital, and had already married into the Palaiologos imperial dynasty before the conquest and did a few times afterwards as well (the dynasty stuck around for awhile as vassals), and were known as Rumis or Romans. If there wasnt a Holy Roman Emperor claiming to be Western Emperor via the Roman Pope and Charlemagne and contesting rule as Emperor of the whole, it would have historically been pretty open and shut

@mjama2132

Ай бұрын

​@@Rynewulfwhat that patraich

@Rynewulf

Ай бұрын

@@mjama2132 big christian priest/bishop, the Pope was Patriarch of Rome before he split. The Ecumenical Patriarch was in charge of all the other ones, and is still based in then Constantinople/now Istanbul where they reporting straight to the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Emperors. And crown the new emperors just like the Pope crowning Holy Roman Emperors etc So it was a bit deal when the Ottomans a) let them stay, b) let them keep running Orthodox priests in the Empire as usual and c) got their recognition as the new in native Greek Basileus Rhomaios or incoming Turkish Kaiser-I Rum, aka Roman Emperor

@mjama2132

Ай бұрын

@@Rynewulf the ottoman were muslim why didn't they claim to be caliph? Which is a better title than being one regular chrisitan emperor

@Rynewulf

Ай бұрын

@@mjama2132 they did both, since Roman Emperor was a secular title for the ruler of the Roman Empire, and Caliph was a religious title for the leading Muslim ruler of the time

The answer is YES 😂😂😂

Worst year was Manzikert 1071. Lost Anatolia which held up the Byzantines for centuries

Obviously the last year of the empire was its worse lol because after it, it didnt exist anymore. how can any other year compare with that as a bigger disaster for the Romans? its pretty much common sense.

3.3.1924; the day the Roman Empire fell once and for all

Has to be 1071 or 1204. Manzikert began the decline of the Romans, then 1204 left the Romans a shell of their former self when they retook Constantinople. 1453 finally ended the Romans, but they merely killed off a sick and dying empire at that point.

It is the every single year when people forgot how to write

49 BCE When Cesar crossed the Rubicon The downfall of Rome started, The Republic fell, The Empire rose and then fell to the same thing that felled the Republic, Infighting backstabbing and authoritarianism

536

It was when I listened to this auctioneer speaking crap in 2024.

27 BC, maybe?

How about 45 BC when the republic fell and Caesar became emperor for life (shortly before being killed and followed by other generals taking his position but getting details like social payouts and the calendar wrong) .

Too many orrrrr

I assume division of empire.

1204

Wei-Song > Rome.

1204 is the top of the worst years

When my glorios 3rd Rome was carved up after WW1 😢🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

@Nick-zw1zw

3 ай бұрын

You all were the ones to end the Roman Empire 😂

Constantinople sacked......

Get an AI voice please. Your accent is not made for narrating, at all.

This is a lot of bad news. 😮

536

1204

@goofymode8205

3 ай бұрын

not roman

@giorgikolxicolchian9581

3 ай бұрын

@@goofymode8205 it was roman