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Contents

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

Europe

Asia

The Pacific

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

★ January/February – Emperor Theodosius I is baptized.

★ February 27 – Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratianus and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all their peoples convert to trinitarian Christianity, in accordance with the patriarchs of Rome and Alexandria, implicitly rejecting the Arianism of the patriarch of Constantinople as heretical.

★ November 24 — Theodosius I makes his ''adventus'', or formal entry, into Constantinople.

★ Bedouin Queen Mavia's Saracen troops defeat a Roman army.

★ Invasion of the Vandals. Gratian is forced to cede Upper Pannonia to them.

Europe

★ Rock of Cashel built in Ireland.

★ Athanaric becomes king of the Thervingi upon Fritigern's death.

Asia

★ The annexation of western provinces by Gupta give him control over commerce with Europe and Egypt.

The Pacific

★ First signs of a human presence on Easter Island.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

★ Important works on mathematics and astronomy are written in Sanskrit.

Religion

★ Publication of the Vulgate, a translation in Latin of the Bible by St. Jerome.

★ St. Gregory Nazianzus orders burning of all known copies of Sappho's poetry.

★ Tyconius writes commentary on the Bible's Book of Revelation.

★ Cathedral built in Trier, Germany.

★ Council of Saragossa.

★ Saint Ambrose introduces popular music into church services.

Births

★ St. Peter Chrysologus, at Imola in Emilia

★ Hephaistio of Thebes, Egyptian astrologer

★ St. Alexios, in Rome

★ Eutyches, opponent of the Nestorian Assyrians

★ Socrates Scholasticus, church historian

Deaths

★ February 15 — Peter II, Patriarch of Alexandria

★ Fritigern, King of the Visigoths

★ Samudragupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire

★ Empress Wang Fahui