Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 351 A.D. through 400 A.D.
- 351 to 400
- Picts and Scots cross Hadrian's Wall and attack Britain (360)
- The Huns invade Europe (360)
- The Empire divided (364): Eastern half from Lower Danube to
the Persian border under Valens; Western half from Caledonia
to northwestern Africa under Valentinian I
- Picts and Scots driven out of Britain by Theodosius (370)
- The Huns invade Russia (376)
- Emperor Valens defeated and killed by Visigoths at Adrianople
in Thrace (378)
- Emperor Theodosius I (379 - 395) resettles Visigoths in the
empire (382)
- Roman legions begin to evacuate Britain (383)
- Emperor Magnus Maximus crosses Channel and conquers Gaul and
Spain (383)
- Accession (392) of Theodosius the Great as Emperor of East
and West (- 395), the last ruler of a united Empire
- Theodosius d. 395; succeeded by Honorius and Arcadius who
redivide the empire
- Alaric, king of the Visigoths (- 410)
- Alaric invades Greece (396) and plunders Athens and the
Balkans (398)
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