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Roman Empire

• After the death of emperor 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....
  , the Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The eastern half is centered in 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...
   under Arcadius
  Arcadius
  
  Flavius Arcadius was Roman Emperors in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire from 395 until his death.Arcadius was born in Spain, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Flavius Augustus Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor....
  , son of Theodosius I, and the western half
  Western Roman Empire
  
  The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
   in Rome under Honorius
  Honorius (emperor)
  
  Flavius Honorius was Roman Emperor and then Western Roman Empire from 395 until his death. He was the younger son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Eastern Emperor Arcadius....
  , his brother.
• Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia
  Aelia Eudoxia
  
  Aelia Eudoxia was the Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire emperor Arcadius....
  , daughter of the Frankish
  Franks
  
  The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
   general Flavius Bauto
  Flavius Bauto
  
  Flavius Bauto was a Roman culture Franks who served as a magister militum of the Western Roman Empire.When the usurper Magnus Maximus invaded Italy in an attempt to replace Valentinian II, Bauto led the forces of the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I and defeated the rebel....
  .
• Alaric
  Alaric I
  
  Alaric I , was likely born about 370 on an Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube. He was king of the Visigoths from 395–410 and the first Germanic peoples leader to take the city of Rome....
   the Visigothic, general of the foederati
  Foederati
  
  Foederatus is a Latin term whose definition and usage drifted in the time between the early Roman Republic and the end of the Western Roman Empire....
  , renounces Roman fealty and is declared king, waging war against both parts of the Empire, and ending a 16-year period of peace between Romans and Visigoths.
• The Visigoths, led by Alaric, invade and devastate Thrace
  Thrace
  
  Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. Today the name Thrace designates a region spread over southern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , and European Turkey ....
   and Macedonia
  Macedonia (Roman province)
  
  The Roman province of Macedonia was officially established in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus defeated Andriscus of Macedon in 148 BC, and after the four client republics established by Rome in the region were dissolved....
  , impose a tribute on Athens
  Athens
  
  Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
  , and then turn their sights on the West.

Asia

• The last Western Satrap, Rudrasimha III, is defeated by the Gupta
  Gupta Empire
  
  The Gupta Empire was ruled by members of the Gupta dynasty from around 280 to 550 CE and covered most of Northern India, Southern and Eastern Pakistan, parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan and what is now western India and Bangladesh....
  s.

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Arts and Sciences

• Possible date that Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius
  Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius
  
  Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius was a Roman Empire grammarian and Neoplatonist philosopher who flourished c. 430 AD....
   published his Saturnalia.

Religion

• Saint Augustine becomes Bishop of Hippo Regius
  Hippo Regius
  
  Hippo Regius is the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba , Algeria. Under this name, it was a major city in Roman Empire Africa, hosting several early Christian councils, and was the home of the philosopher and theologian Augustine of Hippo....
  . His assignment is the reunification of the Roman Catholic Church
  Roman Catholic Church
  
  The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
   in Africa
  Africa
  
  Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
  , primarily focusing on the Donatist
  Donatist
  
  The Donatists were followers of a belief considered a schism by the broader churches of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church tradition, and most particularly within the context of the religious milieu of the provinces of Roman North Africa in Late Antiquity....
   movement led by Primianus.

Births

• Avitus
  Avitus
  
  Eparchius Avitus was Western Roman Emperor with the designation and name Dominus Noster Eparchius Avitus Augustus .Made magister militum by Emperor Petronius Maximus, Avitus was sent on a diplomatic mission to his old student, Theodoric II King of the Visigoths, and was at Theodoric's court in Toulouse when Gaiseric invaded Rom...
  , Western Roman Emperor

Deaths

• January 17 — 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....
  , Roman Emperor
• Ausonius
  Ausonius
  
  Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Latin literature poet and rhetorician, born at Burdigala ....
  , poet
  Poet
  
  A poet is a person who writes poetry....
   and rhetoric
  Rhetoric
  
  Rhetoric is the art of using language as a means to persuade. Along with logic and dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse....
  ian