JAMES J. WALSH, Author of The Thirteenth the Greatest of Centuries,) etc.
301. Tenth persecution of the Christians.
305. Abdication of Diocletian, Roman emperor. Six emperors reign.
312. Constantine defeats Maxentius at the Milvian bridge and becomes western Roman emperor.
313. Edict of Milan proclaims full rights to Christians. 323. Constantine brother-in-law lacinius, emperor of the East, persecutes Christians, is attacked by Constantine, defeated and executed at Nicomedia.
325. Constantine, master of the united empire, founds New Rome, now called after him, Constantinople, and con vokes the great Council of Nice.
330. Constantinople made the capital of the empire and Christianity the state relition.
335. The Germans cross the Rhine and drive the Rowans out of Spain, Prance and Portugal.
353. Conatantius becomes emperor and is unsuccessful against the Pranks. His cousin Julian defeats the German tribes in the west.
360. The Goths. originally from southern Russia, branching into eastern (Ostrogoths) on the Black Sea, and western (Visigoths) in Dacia and Podolia. extend their conquests.
361. Julian the Apostate becomes Roman emperor.
363. The Persian war. Julian killed.
364. The Roman Empire divided between Valentian and Valens.
370. The Saxons invade Gaul and England.
373. The Ostrogoth" who had conquered the Vandals of Silesia and Bohemia are expelled by the Huns Alani, and dislodge the Vioths. who cross the Danube and settle in Thrace under Roman protection. The Alani inhabiting the Caucasus are partly subdued by the Huns. Asiatic nomads who, driven out of Mongolia by the Chinese, cross the Volga and Don unite with the Alani.
376. The Vandals are driven westward by the Alani.
378. The Visigoths, oppressed by the Roman governors, revolt, defeat the Roman army and kill Emperor Valens.
379. Theodosius the Great reigns.
390. The massacre at Thessalonica.
394. Theodosius reunites the Roman Empire after his victory over paganism at Aquilea.
395. The great migration of nations continues. The Visi goths under Alaric ravage the Peloponnesus. The Roman Empire redivides into Eastern and Western, with Rome and Constantinople as resoective capitals.