{"slug": "stilicho", "label": "Stilicho", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilicho", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203636", "qid": "Q203636", "description": "Roman army general (c.359 – 408)", "entries": 17, "years": 15, "span": [359, 409], "span_label": ["359 CE", "409 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "visigoths", "label": "Visigoths", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "alaric-i", "label": "Alaric I", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "goths", "label": "Goths", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "honorius", "label": "Honorius", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "galla-placidia", "label": "Galla Placidia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 359, "year_label": "359 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Stilicho, Roman general (d. 408)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332409759#Births", "title": "359", "revid": 1332409759, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 383, "year_label": "383 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Theodosius I sends Flavius Stilicho as an envoy to the Persian court of King Shapur III at Ctesiphon, to negotiate a peace settlement relating to the partition of Armenia.", "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": 384, "year_label": "384 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Stilicho marries Serena, adopted niece of Theodosius I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741473#Roman_Empire", "title": "384", "revid": 1364741473, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 384, "year_label": "384 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Maria, empress and daughter of Stilicho (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741473#Births", "title": "384", "revid": 1364741473, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 390, "year_label": "390 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Visigoths and Huns, led by Alaric, invade Thrace. Stilicho, high-ranking general (magister militum) of Vandal origin, raises an army and begins a campaign against the Goths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355430318#Roman_Empire", "title": "390", "revid": 1355430318, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 392, "year_label": "392 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Stilicho, Roman general (magister militum), defeats the Visigoths and Huns in Thrace. Emperor Theodosius I permits Alaric to go free on condition he provides, as foederati, military services to the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331511439#Roman_Empire", "title": "392", "revid": 1331511439, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 395, "year_label": "395 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto (without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus, Praetorian prefect of the East). His seven-year-old half-sister, Galla Placidia, is sent to Rome, where she spends her childhood in the household of Stilicho and his wife Serena.", "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": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Revolt of Alaric I: Stilicho traps the Visigoths under King Alaric in the Peloponnese, but decides to abandon the campaign against the Visigoths in Greece, thus allowing King Alaric to escape north to Epirus with his loot. Presumably, Stilicho has left Greece in order to prepare for military action in northern Africa, where a rebellion (see Gildonic Revolt in 398) seems imminent.", "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": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gildonic Revolt: Gildo, a Berber serving as a high-ranking official (comes) in Mauretania, rebels against the Western Roman Empire. The Gildonic Revolt is instigated by a powerful official in the Eastern Roman Empire named Eutropius, who wishes to undermine his enemies in the Western Roman Empire by cutting off the grain supply to Rome. After Gildo takes much of North Africa and cuts off the grain supply to Rome, Flavius Stilicho returns to Italy to raise troops against the rebels. After a short campaign in the desert, he defeats Gildo. Gildo flees and commits suicide by hanging himself.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744112#Roman_Empire", "title": "398", "revid": 1364744112, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 401, "year_label": "401 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Stilicho, Roman general (magister militum), leads his army in an extensive campaign against the Vandals in Rhaetia (Switzerland).", "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": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – Battle of Pollentia: Stilicho recalls troops from Britain and the Rhine frontier to defend Italy. He decides to attack the Goths on Easter Sunday, and manages to capture Alaric's wife and children.", "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": "June", "text": "June – Battle of Verona: The Visigoths, under command of King Alaric I, invade Italy again, and advance through the Brenner Pass. Stilicho, with an army of 30,000 men, defeats the Goths north of Verona. Alaric makes a truce, and withdraws eastward to Illyricum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641291#Roman_Empire", "title": "403", "revid": 1367641291, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 405, "year_label": "405 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Stilicho, Roman general (magister militum), orders the Sibylline Books to be burned, according to the Roman poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367640804#Roman_Empire", "title": "405", "revid": 1367640804, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"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": 408, "year_label": "408 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 22", "text": "August 22 – Stilicho, Roman general", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367644906#Deaths", "title": "408", "revid": 1367644906, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 409, "year_label": "409 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Serena, noblewoman and wife of Stilicho", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641120#Deaths", "title": "409", "revid": 1367641120, "section": "Deaths"}}]}