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SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS BETWEEN ARMINIUS'S VICTORY OVER VABUS AND THE BATTLE OF CHALONS.
A.D. 43. The Romans commence the conquest of Britain, Claudius being then Emperor of Rome. The population of this
island was then Celtic. In about forty years all the tribes south of the Clyde were subdued, and their land made a Roman
province.
68-60. Successful campaigns of the Roman general Corbnle against the Parthians.
64. First persecutions of the Christians at Rome under Nero.
65.
68-70. Civil wars in the Roman world. The Emperors Nero, Galba, Otho, and
Vitellius cut off successively by violent deaths.. Vespasian becomes Emperor.
70. Jerusalem destroyed by the Romans under Titus.
83. Futile attack of Domitian on the Germans.
86. Beginning of the wars between the Romans and the Dacians.
87.
98-117. Trajan emperor of Rome. Under him the empire acquires its greatest territorial extent by his conquests in Dacia
and in the East. His successor, Hadrian, abandons the provinces beyond the Euphrates which Trajan had conquered.
138-180. Era of the Antonines.
167-176. A long and desperate war between Rome and a great confederacy of the German nations. Marcus Antoninus at last
succeeds in repelling them.
192-197. Civil wars throughout the Roman world. Severus becomes emperor. He relaxes the discipline of the soldiers. After
his death in 211, the series of military insurrections, civil wars, and murders of emperors recommences.
226. Artaxerxes (Ardisheer) overthrows the Parthian and restores the Persian kingdom in Asia. He attacks the Roman
possessions in the East.
250. The Goths invade the Roman provinces. Tha Emperor Deems is defeated and slain by them.
253-260. The Franks and Alemanni invade Gaul, Spain, and Africa. The Goths attack Asia Minor and Greece. The Persians
conquer Armenia. Their king, Sapor, defeats the Roman Emperor Valerian, and takes him prisoner. General distress of the Roman
Empire.
268-283. The Emperors Claudius, Aurelian, Tacitus, Probus, and Carus defeat the various enemies of Rome, and restore order
in the Roman state.
285. Diocletian divides and reorganizes the Roman Empire. After his abdication in 305 a fresh series of civil wars and
confusion ensues. Constantine, the first Christian emperor, reunites the empire in 324.
330. Constantine makes Constantinople the seat of empire instead of Rome.
363. The Emperor Julian is killed in action against the Persians.
364-375. The empire is again divided, Valentinian being Emperor of the West, and Valens of the East. Valentinian repulses
the Alemanni, and other German invaders from Gaul. Splendor of the Gothic kingdom under Hermanric, north of the Danube.
375-395. The Huns attack the Goths, who implore the protection of the Roman emperor of the East. The Goths are allowed to
pass the Danube, and to settle in the Roman provinces. A war soon breaks out between them and the Romans, and the Emperor Valens and his
army are destroyed by them. They ravage the Roman territories. The Emperor Theodosius reduces them to submission. They retain settlements
in Thrace and Asia Minor.
395. Final division of the Roman empire between Arcadius and Honorius, the two sons of Theodosius. The Goths revolt, and
under Alaric attack various parts of both the Roman empires.
410. Alario takes the city of Rome.
412. The Goths march into Gaul, and in 414 into Spain, which had been invaded by hosts of Vandals, Suevi, Alani, and ether
Germanic nations. Britain is formally abandoned by the Roman empire of the West.
428. Genseric, king of the Vandals, conquers the Roman province of North Africa.
441, The Huns attack the Eastern empire.
Arminius
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