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Roman Empire
  • Mid-February - The Lentienses
    Lentienses

    The Lentienses were an Alamannic tribe in the region between the river Danube River in the North, the river Iller in the East, and Lake Constance in the South, in what is now south Germany....
     cross the frozen Rhine, invading the Roman Empire
    Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
    .
  • May - The Lentienses are defeated by Gratianus in the Battle of Argentovaria
    Battle of Argentovaria

    The Battle of Argentovaria was fought in May 378 between the Roman emperor Gratian and the invading army of the Lentienses, at Argentovaria . With this defeat, the Lentienses disappear from history....
    .
  • August 9 - Battle of Adrianople
    Battle of Adrianople

    The second Battle of Adrianople , sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman Empire army led by the Roman Emperor Valens and Goths rebels led by Fritigern....
    : A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens
    Valens

    Flamin Julius Valens was Roman Emperor , after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. Valens, sometimes known as the Last of the Romans, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire....
     is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with two-thirds of his army.
  • Theodosius I
    Theodosius I

    Flavius Theodosius , also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great , was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. Reuniting the eastern and western portions of the empire, Theodosius was the last emperor of both the Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire....
     becomes eastern Roman emperor after the death of Valens
    Valens

    Flamin Julius Valens was Roman Emperor , after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. Valens, sometimes known as the Last of the Romans, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire....
    .
  • Valens completes the aqueduct of Constantinople
    Constantinople

    Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
     begun by Constantine I.


The Americas
  • Siyah K'ak'
    Siyah K'ak'

    Siyaj K'ak' was a prominent political firgure mentioned in the glyphs of Classic Era Maya civilization monuments, principally Tikal and Uaxactun....
     begins to replace Mayan kings with relatives of Spearthrower Owl
    Spearthrower Owl

    "Spearthrower Owl" is the name commonly given to a Mesoamerican ruler from the Early Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology, who is identified in Maya script and iconography....
    , emperor of Teotihuacan
    Teotihuacán

    Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest Mesoamerican pyramid built in the pre-Columbian Americas....
    .


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Religion
  • Gregory Nazianzus is ordained bishop of Constantinople
    Constantinople

    Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
    .
  • Pope Damasus I
    Pope Damasus I

    Pope Damasus I was pope from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, or near the city of Castelo Branco , then part of the Western Roman Empire....
     is accused of adultery
    Adultery

    Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a marriage and another person who is not his or her spouse, though in many places it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someone who is not her husband and in others it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someon...
     but is exonerated by emperor Gratian.


Births

  • Germanus of Auxerre
    Germanus of Auxerre

    Germanus of Auxerre was a bishop of Auxerre in Gaul. He is a saint in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxy churches, commemorated on July 31....
    , bishop of Auxerre


Deaths

  • Roman Emperor Valens
    Valens

    Flamin Julius Valens was Roman Emperor , after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. Valens, sometimes known as the Last of the Romans, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire....
     (at the Battle of Adrianople
    Battle of Adrianople

    The second Battle of Adrianople , sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman Empire army led by the Roman Emperor Valens and Goths rebels led by Fritigern....
    )
  • Khui Ningomba, Meitei King of Manipur
    Manipur

    Manipur is a States and territories of India in northeastern India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. Manipur is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west; it also borders Myanmar to the east....