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Arcadius

Roman Emperor from 395–408 (377–408)

14 dated entries naming Arcadius, drawn from 11 separate years between 377 CE and 408 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century

  • 377Arcadius, Roman consul and emperor (approximate date)source
  • 380Aelia Eudoxia, empress and wife of Arcadius (approximate date)source
  • 383January 19 – Arcadius is elevated to Emperor.source
  • 395January 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.source
  • 398John 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.source
  • 399Flavius Mallius Theodorus becomes Roman consul and official at the imperial court of emperor Arcadius.source
  • 400January 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.source

5th century

  • 401Emperor 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.source
  • 402Emperors Arcadius and his younger brother Honorius become Roman consuls.source
  • 402Cynegius, acting for Emperor Arcadius at the insistence of Bishop Porphyry, orders the destruction of pagan temples in Gaza.source
  • 404Fravitta, 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)source
  • 404October 6 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress and wife of Arcadiussource
  • 408May 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.source
  • 408May 1 – Arcadius, Roman emperorsource

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