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Roman History Timeline (4th - 6th Century A.D), 4th Century A.D (301 (303…

- - - - 306
        
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        311
        
        312
        
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        Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
        
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        Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
        
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        July
        
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        Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
        
        After a failed coup against his son Emperor Maxentius, Ex-Emperor Maximian was forced to flee to Constantine's court.
        
        11th November
        
        Ex-Emperor Maximian resigned as augustus.
        
        Emperor Galerius appointed Licinius Augustus of the west and confirmed his recognition of Constantine the Great as Caesar of the west.
        
        Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
        
        Emperor Flavius Valerius Severus surrendered to Ex-Emperor Maximian at Ravenna.
        
        Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
        
        Emperor Galerius laid siege to Rome.
        
        Many of Emperor Galerius's soldiers defected to Emperor Maxentius and he was forced to flee.
        
        Emperor Galerius recognized Flavius Valerius Severus as Augustus in the west and granted Constantine the Great the lesser title of Caesar, which he accepted.
        
        25th July
        
        Emperor Constantius died at Eboracum.
        
        By Constantius's dying wish, his troops acclaimed his son Constantine the Great Augustus.
        
        Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
        
        Rioters in Rome acclaimed Maximian's son Maxentius ruler of Rome.
        
        Emperor Maxentius took the title 'Princeps Invictus', undefeated prince.
        
        Emperor Maxentius invited Maximian to reclaim the title augustus.
      - 1st May
        
        Constantius and Galerius were elevated to Augusti in the west and east.
        
        Emperor Galerius appointed Flavius Valerius Severus Caesar in the west and Maximinus II Caesar in the east.
        
        Emperors Diocletian and Maximian abdicated.
    - - Diocletianic Persecution
        
        Emperor Diocletian issued his first edict against Christians, calling for the destruction of Christian holy books and places of worship and stripping Christians of their government positions and political rights.
- - - - 410
        
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        Usurper Joannes was executed in Aquileia.
        
        24th October
        
        The Byzantine Augustus Theodosius II The Younger, The Calligrapher named the young Valentinian III, his cousin and Constantius III's son, Caesar with rule over the west.
        
        Emperor Theodosius II the Younger's mother Galla Placidia was appointed regent.
        
        15th August
        
        Emperor Honorius died.
        
        The Western Roman patrician Castinus declared the primicerius Joannes, Augustus.
        
        8th February
        
        Emperor Honorius appointed his brother-in-law and Magister militum Constantius III co-ruler of the Western Roman Empire with himself.
        
        2nd September
        
        Emperor Constantius III died.
        
        24th August
        
        Sack of Rome (410)
        
        Rome was sacked by the Visigoths under their king Alaric I.
        
        End of Roman rule in Britain
        
        The last Roman forces left Britain.
      - 1st May
        
        Emperor Arcadius died.
    - - Crossing of the Rhine
        
        A coalition of foreign tribes including the Vandals, Alans and Suebi invaded the Western Roman Empire across the Rhine.
- - - - Augustus Justin I appointed his older son Justinian I the Great co-Augustus with himself.
    - - Emperor Justin I died.
    - - 532
        
        533
        
        13th September
        
        Battle of Ad Decimum
        
        A Byzantine army defeated a Vandal force near Carthage.
        
        15th December
        
        Battle of Tricamarum
        
        The Byzantines defeated a Vandal army and forced their king Gelimer into flight.
        
        21st June
        
        Vandalic War
        
        A Byzantine force under the general Belisarius departed for the Vandal Kingdom.
        
        534
        
        535
        
        536
        
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        Gothic War (535-554)
        
        Byzantine forces crossing from Africa invaded Sicily, then an Ostrogothic possession.
        
        March
        
        Vandalic War
        
        Gelimer surrendered to Belisarius and accepted his offer of a peaceful retirement in Galatia, ending the war.
        
        The territory of the Vandal Kingdom was reorganized as the praetorian prefecture of Africa.
        
        Justinian the Great ordered the construction of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
      - 7th April
        
        The Codex Justinianeus, which attempted to consolidate and reconcile contradictions in Roman law, was promulgated.