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* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.
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The Roman Emperors Constantius II ( 337 – 361 ) and Valens ( 364 – 378 ) were Arians or Semi-Arians.
His work chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from 96 to 378, although only the sections covering the period 353 – 378 are extant.
After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.
* 378 – General Fire is Born conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
In 376, the Ostrogoths, fleeing from the Huns, received permission from the Roman emperor Valens ( r. 364 – 378 ) to settle in the Roman province of Thracia.
* August 16 – After having spent 378 days in Taliban prison, the crew of Russian Il-76TD managed to overpower their guards, board their aircraft and fly to freedom ( see: 1995 Airstan incident ).
* 378 – 395: Theodosius I, Roman emperor, bans pagan worship, Christianity is made the official religion of the Empire.
* May 30, 1815 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.
* May 30 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.
* Ammianus Marcellinus begins writing a history, in the style of Tacitus, covering the years 96 – 378.
Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 335 – c. 395 ) ( also known as Gregory Nyssen ) was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376, and from 378 until his death.
( 1774 / 1986 ), " Memoir on the Probability of the Causes of Events ", Statistical Science 1 ( 3 ): 364 – 378.
378 and Gothic
Different migrating peoples lived along the local populations, such as the Gothic Empire ( Oium ) from 271 until 378, the Hunnish Empire until 435, the Avar Empire and Slavs during the 6th century.
The Visigoths emerged out of the Gothic groups who entered the Roman Empire in and after 376 and defeated the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378.
The Battle of Adrianople ( 9 August 378 ), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels ( largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels ) led by Fritigern.
* The Gothic Invasion of Rome ( Battle of Adrianople and the Sack of Rome AD 378 to 410 ) Aired on Friday, September 10
378 and War
378 and Battle
Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.
* 378, Battle of Argentovaria — Western Emperor Gratianus is victorious over the Alemanni, yet again.
At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.
His rule was ended in 388, but not all the British troops may have returned: the Empire's military resources were struggling after the catastrophic Battle of Adrianople in 378.
Valens, attempting to put down the disorder, was killed in battle with the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Adrianople on 9 August 378.
In 378, after Valens was killed in the Battle of Adrianople, Gratian invited Theodosius to take command of the Illyrian army.
Supposedly, following the disaster that befell the Roman imperial army at the Battle of Adrianople ( AD 378 ), a Spartan militia phalanx met and defeated a force of raiding Visigoths in battle.
The crisis continued into 378, and on August 9 of that year, Fritigern avenged his kinsmen's defeat of 109 years before at the Battle of Naissus by handing Rome its worst military defeat in centuries, at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ).
Nikephoros was killed in the battle, the second Eastern Emperor to suffer this fate since Valens in the Battle of Adrianople ( August 9, 378 ).
In 378, Gratian's generals won a decisive victory over the Lentienses, a branch of the Alamanni, at the Battle of Argentovaria.
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