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Western Roman Empire

• Flavius Mallius Theodorus
  Flavius Mallius Theodorus
  Flavius Mallius Theodorus was consul of the Roman Empire in 399, and author of an extant treatise on metres, one of the best of its kind...
  
   becomes Roman consul
  Consul
  -Ancient Rome:During the time of ancient Rome as a Republic, the consuls were the highest civil and military magistrates, serving as the heads of government for the Republic. New consuls were elected every year. There were two consuls, and they ruled together...
  
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• Gladiator
  Gladiator
  A Gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their legal and social standing and their lives by appearing in the...
  
  ial schools in Rome are closed by order of the Emperor Honorius
  Honorius (emperor)
  Flavius Honorius was Roman Emperor and then Western Roman Emperor 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....
  
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Eastern Roman Empire

• Forming an alliance with deserters of Tribigild
  Tribigild
  Tribigild was a Ostrogothic general whose rebellion against the Eastern Roman Empire precipitated a major political crisis during the reign of Emperor Arcadius....
  
   along the Bosphorus, Gothic
  Goths
  The Goths were a heterogeneous East Germanic tribe. The historian Jordanes claimed that the Goths arrived from semi-legendary Scandza, believed to be somewhere in modern Götaland , and that a Gothic population had crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century, lending their name to the region of...
  
   leader Gainas devastates the outlying areas near Constantinople
  Constantinople
  Constantinople was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire...
  
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Asia

• Yazdegerd I becomes king of Persia.
• Fa-Hien, a Chinese
  China
  China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
  
   Buddhist
  Buddhism
  Buddhism, as traditionally conceived, is a path of salvation attained through insight into the ultimate nature of reality. It encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha...
  
   monk
  Monk
  A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, whilst always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...
  
  , travels to India
  India
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
  
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Religion

• November 27—Pope Anastasius I
  Pope Anastasius I
  Pope Saint Anastasius I was pope from November 27, 399 to 401.He condemned the writings of the Alexandrian theologian Origen shortly after their translation into Latin....
  
   succeeds Pope Siricius
  Pope Siricius
  Pope Saint Siricius, Bishop of Rome from December 384 until his death on 26 November 399, was successor to Damasus I and was himself succeeded by Anastasius I....
  
   as the 39th pope
  Pope
  The pope is the Bishop of Rome and, as such, is leader of the worldwide Catholic Church...
  
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• Anastasius seeks to reconcile the churches of Rome
  Roman Catholic Church
  The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church. With more than a billion members, over half of all Christians and more than one-sixth of the world's population, the Catholic Church is a communion of the Western, or Latin Rite Church, and...
  
   and Antioch
  Antiochian Orthodox Church
  The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, also known as Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, the Eastern Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East, Antiochian Orthodox Church, and the Orthodox Church of Antioch,, according to the Eastern Orthodox Church is one of the five churches that...
  
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• Flavian I of Antioch
  Flavian I of Antioch
  Flavian I of Antioch was a bishop or Patriarch of Antioch from 381 until his death.He was born about 320, most probably in Antioch. He inherited great wealth, but resolved to devote his riches and his talents to the service of the church...
  
   is acknowledged as legitimate bishop of Antioch by the Church of Rome.
• Anastasius and other bishops condemn the doctrine of Origen
  Origen
  Origen was an early Christian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church. According to tradition, he is held to have been an Egyptian who taught in Alexandria, reviving the Catechetical School of Alexandria where Clement of Alexandria had...
  
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Deaths

• Bahram IV of Persia
• Eutropius (Byzantine official)
  Eutropius (Byzantine official)
  Eutropius was a fourth century Eastern Roman official.He began his career as a eunuch in the palace of Theodosius I. After Theodosius' death in 395 he successfully arranged the marriage of the new emperor, Arcadius, to Aelia Eudoxia, having blocked an attempt by Arcadius' chief minister, Rufinus,...
  
  
• Yuan Shansong
  Yuan Shansong
  Yuan Shansong , sometimes called Yuan Song , was an official of the Jin Dynasty. He was known as an accomplished poet, lyricist and also as an historian. Yuan also produced one of the first landscape essays, later to become a popular form in Chinese literature...
  
  , Chinese poet
• Emperor Nintoku
  Emperor Nintoku
  was the 16th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign. Nintoku is considered to have ruled the country during the late-fourth century and early-fifth century, but there is a paucity of information about him...
  
   of Japan
• Tufa Wugu
  Tufa Wugu
  Tufa Wugu , formally Prince Wu of Wuwei , was the founding prince of the Chinese/Xianbei state Southern Liang. He was initially a vassal of Later Liang's emperor Lü Guang, but seeing how Lü Guang was misruling his people, declared independence in 397...