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Sack of Rome (390 BC)
Sack of Rome (390 BC), also called the Gallic sack: Senones under Brennus crushed Rome at the Allia, looted the city, besieged the Capitol seven months, and left with 1,000 pounds of gold.
Sack of Rome (410)
Sack of Rome (410): Alaric I and his Visigoths entered Rome through the Salarian Gate on 24 August 410 and plundered it for three days, the first foreign capture in about 800 years, sparing churches but burning the Senate House.
Sack of Rome (455)
The Sack of Rome (455): the Vandals under Genseric plundered Rome June 2-16, 455, after Valentinian III and Petronius Maximus were killed, sparing the monuments and taking Eudoxia and her daughters captive to Carthage.
Sack of Singapura
The Sack of Singapura was the 1398 destruction of the Kingdom of Singapura on Singapore, after which its last king, Parameswara, fled and founded Malacca.
Sack of Somnath
Mahmud of Ghazni's 1025–26 sack of the Somnath Shiva temple in Gujarat: treasure seized, idol destroyed, fragments sent to Ghazni; later remembered as a foundational trauma, a reading Romila Thapar's historiography questions.
Sack of Surat (1664)
The Sack of Surat was the 1664 plunder of the Mughal port city of Surat by the Maratha ruler Shivaji, in reprisal for the occupation of Poona.
Sack of Susa (647 BC)
The sack of Susa was the destruction of the Elamite capital Susa by Ashurbanipal's Assyrian army in the mid-640s BC, dated to 647 or 646 BC.
Sack of Susa and removal of the Statue of Marduk
The sack of Susa and removal of the Statue of Marduk refers to Elamite kings' campaigns against Kassite Babylonia around 1158–1155 BC, ending the Kassite dynasty.
Sack of Tbilisi (1795)
The sack of Tbilisi (تاراج تفلیس به دست آقامحمدخان) was the capture and plunder of Tbilisi, capital of Kartli-Kakheti, by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar of Iran in September 1795.
Sack of Thăng Long (1371)
The sack of Thăng Long in 1371 was the capture and burning of Đại Việt's capital, present-day Hanoi, by Champa's naval forces under King Chế Bồng Nga, part of their 1367–1390 war.
Sack of Thebes (663 BC)
The sack of Thebes in 663 BC, recalled in Nahum as the fall of No-Amon, was the plundering of Egypt's religious capital by Ashurbanipal of Assyria, ending Kushite rule.
Sack of Ur (c. 2004 BC)
The sack of Ur, also called the Elamite raid on Ur, was the capture and destruction of Ur by Elamite forces around 2004 BC, ending the Ur III empire.
Sack of Vijaya
The Sack of Vijaya was the 1471 capture of Vijaya, capital of the Cham kingdom of Champa, by Dai Viet under Emperor Le Thanh Tong, ending with King Tra Toan captured.
Sack of Vijayanagara
The sack of Vijayanagara (विजयनगर की लूट) was the 1565 plunder of the Vijayanagara capital by the allied Deccan sultanates after their victory at the Battle of Talikota.
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a 2020 3D platformer by Sumo Digital and Sony Interactive Entertainment, a LittleBigPlanet spin-off and PS5/PS4 launch title (Nov 12, 2020, $59.99), ported to PC in 2022, with four-player co-op, 81% aggregate score, and two 2021 BAFTA wins.
Sackbut
Sackbut: English name for the early trombone, from French sacqueboute (pull-push), evolved from the slide trumpet in the 15th century; narrower bore, smaller less-flared bell than the modern trombone, used in Renaissance church and shawm-band ensembles.
Sackcloth (שַׂק)
Sackcloth (Hebrew saq, שַׂק; Greek sakkos) is coarse dark goat- or camel-hair cloth of the biblical world, used for grain sacks and, worn as a garment, to signal mourning, penitence, submission, and national crisis; attested across 19 Old Testament books and the Near East.
Sackler family
Sackler family, American dynasty of Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler, owners of Purdue Pharma; their 1996 OxyContin marketing fueled the US opioid epidemic, leading to a $7.4 billion settlement and widespread denaming.
Sacks splitting theorem
The Sacks splitting theorem is a 1963 result in computability theory: every noncomputable c.e. set splits into two disjoint c.e. sets, each of low degree.
SACLA
SACLA (SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron LAser) is an X-ray free-electron laser facility in Hyogo, Japan, opened in 2012 as the world's second XFEL, distinguished by its compact 700-meter design.
SACMI
SACMI (Società Anonima Cooperativa Meccanici Imola) is an Italian cooperative industrial group headquartered in Imola, founded in 1919 by nine mechanics, and a world-leading supplier of ceramic machinery.
Sacoglossa
Sacoglossa, commonly called sap-sucking sea slugs, is a clade of small marine gastropod mollusks within Heterobranchia, best known for kleptoplasty, retaining functional chloroplasts stolen from algae.
Sacon Group
Sacon Group (帅康), formally Zhejiang Sacon Electric, is a Chinese kitchen-appliance manufacturer founded in 1984 in Yuyao, Zhejiang, known for range hoods and water heaters.
Sacoué
Sacoué, a small commune (71 inhabitants) in the Barousse valley, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, at the foot of Mont Sacon, site of a Gallo-Roman mountain sanctuary and a former glassmaking village.
Sacra Corona Unita
Sacra Corona Unita (SCU), Italy's "fourth mafia," is a mafia-type organization founded in an Apulian prison in the early 1980s by Pino Rogoli, active in smuggling, drug trafficking, and extortion.
Sacra Dorsa
Sacra Dorsa: IAU-named ridge system (dorsa) on Mars, approved 1985 from an albedo feature at 20N, 67W; about 1,416 km across, centered near 11.21N, 293.91E in quadrangle MC-10.
Sacra Fossae
Sacra Fossae: a 950-km-wide system of graben, fault-bounded tectonic troughs, in Mars's Tharsis region near Sacra Mensa and Kasei Valles; IAU-approved 1976 as a classical albedo feature name, centered at 21.47°N, 68.50°W.
Sacra Mensa
Sacra Mensa is a large mesa on Mars between the north and south channels of Kasei Valles, rising 3 km above the channel, marked by graben and extensive landslides totaling about 2,800 cubic kilometers.
Sacra Sulci
Sacra Sulci: IAU-named sulcus (parallel hills and valleys) on Mars at 22.16N, 285.30E, diameter 1009.05 km, approved 1985 from Antoniadi's classical albedo feature at 20N, 67W.
Sacra Via
Sacra Via (Via Sacra), the oldest and most famous street of ancient Rome, ran about 500 m through the Roman Forum from the Capitoline to the Arch of Titus, carrying triumphal and religious processions.