Update: Jonas Salk said: If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end.
Attila (opera) Attila is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the 1809 play Attila, KÃ¶nig der Hunnen (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner. The opera received its first performance at La Fenice in Venice on 17 March 1846.
Major Dates in the Life of Attila the Hun: 1  406 Attila is born. 2  433 Attila becomes ruler of the Huns. 3  450 Emperor Valentinian II's sister Honoria writes to Attila. 4  451 Defeat of Attila at Chalons. 5  452 The pope persuades Attila not to sack Rome. 6  453 Attila dies.