01-19-2011, 10:06 PM
January 18, 350 AD: Flavius Magnus Magnentius (commander of the Ioviani and Herculiani) is proclaimed emperor by the troops at Augustodunum Haeduorum (Autun). Constans is abandoned by all and flees south, but is overtaken in a fortress near Helena, close to the Pyrennees. A troop of light cavalry drags him from a temple and kills him (end of February).
January 18, 474 AD: Death of the emperor Leo of dysentery, aged 73. Accession of his grandson Flavius Leo (Junior) at age 7, until his death of an unknown disease after about 10 in November.
January 18, 532 AD: end of the Nika-revolt in Constantinople (January 11-18). The riots turn into a rebellion by the two main circus factions when the aristocracy forces Justinian to name Hypatius (a nephew of Anastasius) emperor. Justinian is saved by the magister militius per Orientem Belisarius and the magister militum per Illyrium Mundus, who quell the rebellion with a few loyal troops, killing 30-40.000 people.
January 18, 474 AD: Death of the emperor Leo of dysentery, aged 73. Accession of his grandson Flavius Leo (Junior) at age 7, until his death of an unknown disease after about 10 in November.
January 18, 532 AD: end of the Nika-revolt in Constantinople (January 11-18). The riots turn into a rebellion by the two main circus factions when the aristocracy forces Justinian to name Hypatius (a nephew of Anastasius) emperor. Justinian is saved by the magister militius per Orientem Belisarius and the magister militum per Illyrium Mundus, who quell the rebellion with a few loyal troops, killing 30-40.000 people.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
