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September 5, 394 AD: First day of the battle of the river Frigidus (Vipava/Wippach) between the eastern Roman armies of Theodosius and the Western Roman forces of Eugenius and Arbogast. After the death (May 15, 392) of the weak and powerless Valentinian II (at age 21) his guardian, the Frankish magister militum Arbogast, suddenly elected the official Eugenius as emperor of the West. Eugenius and Arbogast strengthened the position of pagans in the West, promoting the cult of Jupiter and restoring other shrines, which did not earn support from the very religious Christian Theodosius.
In 393 Theodosius decided to back the (8-year old) Honorius and in 394 went on campaign against the usurpers. His army, under his generals Stilicho and Timasius, the Visigoth chieftain Alaric, and a Caucasian Iberian named Bacurios Hiberios, passing through Illyria unopposed and closed upon the Western army within the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum in a pass near present-day Vipava, Slovenia.
Eugenius had a statue of Jupiter placed on the battlefield, hoping to inspire his forces. Theodosius had his Gothic federates bear the brunt of the first charge, which only ended in heavy casualties, with general Bacurius among the dead.
(to be continued...)
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September 6, 394 AD: Second day of the battle of the river Frigidus (Vipava/Wippach): victory of Theodosius over Eugenius and Arbogast after Arbogast's troops meant to attack the enemy from behind, went over to Theodosius. Aided by a strong local wind, the eastern army attacked and broken the line of the opposing Roman army.
Eugenius was captured and after the battle on the same day of the victory, leaving the entire Roman empire once more (and for the last time) in the hands of one emperor.
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September 7, 70 AD: After a siege that started in March, the Roman army under Titus finally gains complete control of Jerusalem.
September 7, 355 AD: Death of Claudius Silvanus at the instigation of the magister equitum Ursicinus. Court intrigues force the magister peditum to usurp the throne (August 11), but he is killed after just 28 days.
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September 8, 394 AD: Suicide of the magister militum Arbogast after his defeat by Theodosius on the river Frigidus 2 days earlier. Theodosius is now sole emperor, with his sons Arcadius and Honorius as co-regents in the East and West.
September 8, 701 AD: Death of Sergius I, pope from 687 to 701.
September 8, 780 AD: Death of the Roman emperor Leo IV (b. 750) after a reign of 5 years.
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September 9, 384 AD, Honorius, future Roman Emperor is born. (sadly I must say, since I'm not a big fan 
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September 9, 9 AD: The Romans suffer one of the greatest defeats in their history in the Teutoburg Forest. Three legions (the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth) are destroyed; general Publius Quintilius Varus is forced to commit suicide.
September 9, 214 AD: Birth of Aurelian, future Roman Emperor (d. 275).
September 9, 337 AD: After three months of interregnum (during which the army rebels) the sons of Constantine I (Flavius Claudius Constantinus, Flavius Julius Constantius and Flavius Julius Constans) succeed their father, who died on May 22.
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September 10, 1169 AD: Birth of Alexius II Comnenus later Roman Emperor (d. 1183).
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September 12, 490 BC (Or August 12): The Battle of Marathon takes places between the Greek and Persian armies. The Persians under Darius I attemtep their first invasion of Europe after they defeated the Ionian revolt at the Battle of Lade (492 BC), and wished to punish Athens for supporting the rebels. In 491 BC, Darius sent a force under Mardonius, which re-conquered Thrace and compelled Alexander I of Macedon to make Macedon a client kingdom to Persia. Next year, the Persians sailed down the coast of Attica, and landed at the bay of Marathon. The Athenian army confronted the Persians in a stalemate, waiting for Spartan reinforcements, but aided by the full muster of 1,000 hoplites from the small city of Plataea. After 5 days, the Greeks attacked and routed the Persians in a fierce battle.
The Athenians then quickly marched back to Athens to successfully prevent the Persian fleet doing harm to their undefended city. The Persian fleet sailed home before the Spartan army arrived, a day too late.
September 12, 413 AD: Death of Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
September 12, 1185 AD: Death of Andronikos I Komnenos, Roman emperor (b. 1118).
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September 13, 509 BC: The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
September 13, 64 AD: Birth of Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus (d. 91).
September 13, 81 AD: Death of Titus Flavius Vespasianus (30 December 39 – 13 September 81), Roman emperor (79-81).
September 13, 122 AD: Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins.
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September 14, 81 AD: Titus Flavius Domitianus (24 October 51 – 18 September 96), commonly known as Domitian, becomes Emperor upon the death of his brother Titus.
September 14, 533 AD: At the battle of Ad Decimum (´at the tenth´ [milestone]), Belisarius is almost defeated by Gelimer, but manages to secure the victory after Gelimer's brother Ammatas falls. Fall of the Vandal kingdom in North Africa.
September 14, 23 AD: Death of Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius. According to Apicata, former wife of Sejanus, Tiberius' Praetorian Prefect, he was poisoned.
September 14, 258 AD: Death of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage.
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16 September 304 AD —Flavius Valerius Severus was proclaimed emperor.
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September 15, 668 AD: Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II (also named K?nstantinos Pogonatos (the bearded) November 7, 630 – September 15, 668) is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy by his chamberlain.
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September 16, 16 AD: Birth of Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38).
September 16, 96 AD: Death of Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51), in a palace conspiracy organized by court officials.
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Quote:16 September 304 AD —Flavius Valerius Severus was proclaimed emperor.
Was he? I think he became a Caesar on May 1, 305 AD, and was raised to Augustus upon the death of Constantius I in July 306?
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September 17, 480 BC: Possible first day (also: August 7 or September 8 ) of fighting of the Battle of Thermopylae, fought between the Greeks (300 Spartans, led by their king, Leonidas, 700 Thespians, 400 Thebans and perhaps a few hundred others) and the Achaemenid Persian army.
September 17, 260 AD: Syria, Egypt and Palestine break away from the Empire under the usurpers Tiberius Fulvius Iunius Macrianus (minor) and Tiberius Inius Fulvius Quietus.
September 17, 456 AD: Death of Remistus, magister militum of the emperor Avitus. Remistus fought against the troops of the patrician Ricimer, while Avitus went to his native Gaul to gather reinforcements. Remistus clashed against the Senate army and was forced to return to Ravenna, were he was besieged. After being captured he was put to death in the Palace in Classis, just outside the city.
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