{"slug": "arcadius", "label": "Arcadius", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159369", "qid": "Q159369", "description": "Roman Emperor from 395–408 (377–408)", "entries": 14, "years": 11, "span": [377, 408], "span_label": ["377 CE", "408 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "honorius", "label": "Honorius", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-consul", "label": "Roman consul", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gaza-city", "label": "Gaza City", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "milan", "label": "Milan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theodosius-i", "label": "Theodosius I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mediolanum", "label": "Mediolanum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christians", "label": "Christians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theodosius-ii", "label": "Theodosius II", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 377, "year_label": "377 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Arcadius, Roman consul and emperor (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367313593#Births", "title": "377", "revid": 1367313593, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 380, "year_label": "380 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Aelia Eudoxia, empress and wife of Arcadius (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1281452530#Births", "title": "380", "revid": 1281452530, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 383, "year_label": "383 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – Arcadius is elevated to Emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205021#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 383", "revid": 1349205021, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 395, "year_label": "395 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – Emperor Theodosius I, age 48, dies of a disease involving severe edema in Milan. The Roman Empire is divided for the final time into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under his brother Honorius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334185587#Roman_Empire", "title": "395", "revid": 1334185587, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 398, "year_label": "398 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, receives a delegation of clergy who want to close the pagan temples at Gaza (Palestine) where worshippers are openly defying the law. John works through the eunuch Eutropius, who has great power over emperor Arcadius, and within a week an imperial Constitution is issued closing the Roman temples, but the official appointed to execute this order is bribed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744112#Religion", "title": "398", "revid": 1364744112, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 399, "year_label": "399 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Flavius Mallius Theodorus becomes Roman consul and official at the imperial court of emperor Arcadius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364933714#Roman_Empire", "title": "399", "revid": 1364933714, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 400, "year_label": "400 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – Emperor Arcadius gives his wife Aelia Eudoxia the official title of Augusta. She is able to wear the purple paludamentum and is depicted in Roman currency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347571639#Roman_Empire", "title": "400", "revid": 1347571639, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 401, "year_label": "401 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Arcadius sends many gifts to the Hunnic chieftain Uldin, in appreciation of his victory over the Goths and Gainas. Arcadius then allies himself with the Huns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334186664#Roman_Empire", "title": "401", "revid": 1334186664, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 402, "year_label": "402 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperors Arcadius and his younger brother Honorius become Roman consuls.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326555519#Roman_Empire", "title": "402", "revid": 1326555519, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 402, "year_label": "402 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Cynegius, acting for Emperor Arcadius at the insistence of Bishop Porphyry, orders the destruction of pagan temples in Gaza.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326555519#Religion", "title": "402", "revid": 1326555519, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 404, "year_label": "404 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Fravitta, a Goth serving the Eastern Roman Empire as a high-ranking general, is executed on the behest of a powerful official named Ioannes. Fravitta is executed because he accused Ioannes of pitting Emperor Arcadius and Emperor Honorius (of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, respectively) against each other. The execution of Fravitta results in the Eastern Roman Empire losing one of their most loyal and competent generals. (404 or 405)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641593#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 404", "revid": 1367641593, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 404, "year_label": "404 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 6", "text": "October 6 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress and wife of Arcadius", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641593#Deaths", "title": "AD 404", "revid": 1367641593, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 408, "year_label": "408 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – Emperor Arcadius dies in his palace at Constantinople, after a weak 13-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old son, Theodosius II, who rules under the domination of his devout Christian sister Pulcheria and Anthemius, who acts as regent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367644906#Roman_Empire", "title": "408", "revid": 1367644906, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 408, "year_label": "408 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – Arcadius, Roman emperor", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367644906#Deaths", "title": "408", "revid": 1367644906, "section": "Deaths"}}]}