{"slug": "marcian", "label": "Marcian", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcian", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178004", "qid": "Q178004", "description": "Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor (390-457)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [392, 457], "span_label": ["392 CE", "457 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "roman-emperor", "label": "Roman Emperor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "religion", "label": "Religion", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "church-of-the-holy-apostles", "label": "Church of the Holy Apostles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pulcheria", "label": "Pulcheria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "march", "label": "March", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "diplomatic-mission", "label": "Diplomatic mission", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "illyria", "label": "Illyria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 392, "year_label": "392 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Flavius Marcian, Roman Emperor (d. 457)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331511439#Births", "title": "392", "revid": 1331511439, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 431, "year_label": "431 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aspar is routed by the Vandals and Flavius Marcian, future Byzantine emperor, is captured during the fighting. He negotiates a peace with King Genseric and maintains imperial authority in Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311961439#Africa", "title": "431", "revid": 1311961439, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 450, "year_label": "450 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 25", "text": "August 25 – Pulcheria is forced to marry and co-rule the Eastern Roman Empire. She gives the imperial diadem to the Illyrian (or Thracian) officer and senator Marcian, age 58, and is crowned as empress in the Hippodrome at Constantinople, in the first religious coronation ceremony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334307596#Byzantium", "title": "450", "revid": 1334307596, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantium"}}, {"year": 453, "year_label": "453 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Anthemius marries Marcia Euphemia, daughter of Marcian, and is elevated to the rank of comes. He is sent to the Danubian frontier to rebuild the border defences.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348812409#Byzantium", "title": "453", "revid": 1348812409, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantium"}}, {"year": 456, "year_label": "456 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March", "text": "March – Emperor Marcian sends an embassy to Carthage, to end the Vandal raids in the Mediterranean from their strongholds in North Africa, and quells disturbances on the Armenian frontier.", "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": "Deaths", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – Flavius Marcian, Roman emperor (b. 392)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367050070#Deaths", "title": "457", "revid": 1367050070, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 457, "year_label": "457 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – Emperor Marcian dies at Constantinople, possibly of foot gangrene, an infection contracted during a long religious journey. He is buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles, together with his late wife Pulcheria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367050070#Roman_Empire", "title": "457", "revid": 1367050070, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}