{"slug": "majorian", "label": "Majorian", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorian", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191956", "qid": "Q191956", "description": "Western Roman Emperor (420-461)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [420, 461], "span_label": ["420 CE", "461 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "burgundians", "label": "Burgundians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "suebi", "label": "Suebi", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scythians", "label": "Scythians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-navy", "label": "Roman navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alans", "label": "Alans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aquitaine", "label": "Aquitaine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "toulouse", "label": "Toulouse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "liguria", "label": "Liguria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 420, "year_label": "420 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Majorian, emperor of the Western Roman Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371542443#Births", "title": "AD 420", "revid": 1371542443, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Châlons): Attila avoids a pitched battle near Orléans, and withdraws to the Catalaunian Plains (Champagne-Ardenne). The Roman coalition defeats the Huns, but Theodoric I is killed in the encounter. This is one of the last military victories of the Western Roman Empire, before the victories of Emperor Majorian against the Alemanni, Visigoths, Suebi and Burgundians, between 457 and 461.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 456, "year_label": "456 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the usurper Avitus near Piacenza (northern Italy). They compel him to renounce the purple, and Avitus is obliged to become bishop of Piacenza.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752999#Roman_Empire", "title": "456", "revid": 1364752999, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 457, "year_label": "457 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army, after defeating 900 Alemanni near Lake Maggiore (Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367050070#Roman_Empire", "title": "457", "revid": 1367050070, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 458, "year_label": "458 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Majorian builds a Roman fleet at Miseno and Ravenna. He strengthens the army, by recruiting a large number of barbarian mercenaries (Bastarnae, Burgundians, Huns, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Scythians and Suebi).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748114#Roman_Empire", "title": "458", "revid": 1364748114, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 460, "year_label": "460 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Majorian gathers an expeditionary force (Alans and other barbarians) in Liguria, and enters Aquitaine after a long march, where he visits King Theodoric II at Toulouse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598361#Roman_Empire", "title": "460", "revid": 1360598361, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 461, "year_label": "461 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 2", "text": "August 2 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy), and deposed by Ricimer (magister militum) as puppet emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204937#Roman_Empire", "title": "461", "revid": 1349204937, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 461, "year_label": "461 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – Majorian, emperor of the Western Roman Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204937#Deaths", "title": "461", "revid": 1349204937, "section": "Deaths"}}]}