{"slug": "honorius", "label": "Honorius", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorius", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159798", "qid": "Q159798", "description": "4th and 5th-century Roman emperor", "entries": 20, "years": 19, "span": [384, 423], "span_label": ["384 CE", "423 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "arcadius", "label": "Arcadius", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-triumph", "label": "Roman triumph", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "theodosius-i", "label": "Theodosius I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "stilicho", "label": "Stilicho", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-emperor", "label": "Roman Emperor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 384, "year_label": "384 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741473#Births", "title": "384", "revid": 1364741473, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 393, "year_label": "393 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his son Honorius, age 8, co-ruler (Augustus) of the Western Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744069#Roman_Empire", "title": "393", "revid": 1364744069, "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": 396, "year_label": "396 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Stilicho, Roman general (magister militum), controls the young emperor Honorius as his regent, and becomes the de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire. He enlists the Alemanni and the Franks, to defend the Rhine frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1276670607#Roman_Empire", "title": "396", "revid": 1276670607, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 397, "year_label": "397 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Honorius passes a law making barbarian styles of dress illegal in the city of Rome. As a result of this law, everybody in Rome is forbidden from wearing boots, trousers, animal skins, and long hair. This law is passed in response to the increasing popularity of barbarian fashions among the people of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744022#Roman_Empire", "title": "397", "revid": 1364744022, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 398, "year_label": "398 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Honorius marries Stilicho's daughter Maria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744112#Roman_Empire", "title": "398", "revid": 1364744112, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 399, "year_label": "399 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Emperor Honorius of the Western Roman Empire, who is only 15 years old, closes the gladiatorial schools in Rome, and legally ends munera (gladiator games).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364933714#Roman_Empire", "title": "399", "revid": 1364933714, "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": 403, "year_label": "403 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Honorius and Stilicho are honored with a triumphal march, for the victories against the Goths and Vandals. This becomes the last victory celebrated in Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641291#Roman_Empire", "title": "403", "revid": 1367641291, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"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": 405, "year_label": "405 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Honorius closes the Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum), in an austerity move that abolishes amusements.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367640804#Roman_Empire", "title": "405", "revid": 1367640804, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 407, "year_label": "407 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Maria, empress consort and wife of Honorius", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369368532#Deaths", "title": "407", "revid": 1369368532, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 408, "year_label": "408 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Emperor Honorius marries Thermantia, second daughter of Stilicho, his famous general (magister militum).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367644906#Roman_Empire", "title": "408", "revid": 1367644906, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 409, "year_label": "409 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Didymus and Verinianus, cousins of emperor Honorius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641120#Deaths", "title": "409", "revid": 1367641120, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 410, "year_label": "410 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "According to Zosimus, this is the year when Emperor Honorius sends his Rescript (diplomatic letters) to the Romano-British magistrates, ending Roman rule in Great Britain. However this is likely an example of scribal error. Most recently, David Woods has argued that the account refers instead to Raetia, a Roman province north of Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367642022#Roman_Empire", "title": "410", "revid": 1367642022, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 411, "year_label": "411 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle or siege of Arles: Emperor Honorius sends two Roman generals to deal with the usurper Constantine III in Gaul. They take over the army of Gerontius, Constantine's rebellious general (magister militum) who flees to Spain, then defeat Edobichus near Arles and defeat Constantine III. He is taken prisoner and put to death at Ravenna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367645014#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 411", "revid": 1367645014, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 416, "year_label": "416 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Priscus Attalus, Roman usurper, is forced to participate in a triumph celebrated by Emperor Honorius, in the streets of Rome. After the festivities, he is exiled to the Lipari Islands (north of Sicily).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641805#Roman_Empire", "title": "416", "revid": 1367641805, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 421, "year_label": "421 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 8", "text": "February 8 – Constantius III is appointed co-emperor (Augustus) with his ineffectual brother-in-law, Honorius, and becomes the real ruler of the Western Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364903948#Roman_Empire", "title": "421", "revid": 1364903948, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 423, "year_label": "423 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Emperor Honorius, age 38, dies at Ravenna of dropsy, perhaps pulmonary edema. With no children to claim the throne, Joannes, primicerius notariorum (\"chief notary\", head of the civil service), seizes the throne of the Western Roman Empire, and is declared emperor. Among his supporters are Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum). Joannes' rule is accepted in the dioceses of Gaul, Hispania and Italia, but not in Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741573#Roman_Empire", "title": "423", "revid": 1364741573, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 423, "year_label": "423 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Honorius, Roman Emperor (b. 384)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741573#Deaths", "title": "423", "revid": 1364741573, "section": "Deaths"}}]}