Constantine's men inflicted heavy losses on the retreating army.

Of the battle itself, not much is known – Constantine's forces defeated Maxentius's troops, who retreated to the Tiber, and in the chaos of the fleeing army trying to cross the river, Maxentius fell into the water and drowned.

The Allied Powers were opposed to Constantine's firstborn son George becoming King, as he had served in the German army before the war and identified with his father's pro-German policies.

He transferred his troops into the Balkans and was about to defeat Constantine's army in battle, when he was wounded and died on the field, ending the crisis in 1043.

Subsequently, although the Greek army won the Giannitsa battle situated 40 km west of Salonika, the Constantine's hesitation in capturing the city after a week had passed, led into an open confrontation with Venizelos.

Informed by the local Byzantine governor of William's actions, Michael VIII sent an army under the command of his half-brother, Constantine, against William, but the expedition was unsuccessful, the Byzantines first being routed at the Battle of Prinitza in 1263 and then, after Constantine's return to Constantinople, suffering a heavy defeat at the Battle of Makryplagi in 1264.

That very day Constantine's army fought the forces of Maxentius and won the Battle of the Milvian Bridge ( 312 ), outside Rome.

It continues on the southern, " outward " looking face, with the siege of Verona, which was of great importance to the war in Northern Italy ; also on that face, the Battle of Milvian Bridge with Constantine's army victorious and the enemy drowning in the river Tiber.

Constantine's army landed on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphoros at a place called the Sacred Promontory and marched southward towards Chalcedon.

The religious aspect of the conflict was reflected in Licinius drawing up his battle lines with images of the pagan gods of Rome prominently displayed, whilst Constantine's army fought under his talismanic Christian standard, the labarum.

Licinius, recognising that his surviving forces in Nicomedia could not stand against Constantine's victorious army, was persuaded to throw himself on the mercy of his enemy.

The rockface at the west end of the building was cut away, although it is unclear how much remained in Constantine's time, as archaeological investigation has revealed that the temple of Aphrodite reached far into the current rotunda area, and the temple enclosure would therefore have reached even further to the west.

But by September, the tribes that had overrun the Rhine defenses, and had spent the intervening two years burning and plundering their way through Gaul, had reached the Pyrenees, where they broke through Constantine's garrisons and entered Hispania.

Constantine's power reached its peak in 409 when he controlled Gaul and beyond, he was joint consul with Honorius and his magister militum Gerontius defeated the last Roman force to try to hold the borders of Hispania.

Critics believed that Constantine's batting reached its peak once he became an accomplished league cricketer.

* 324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.

Following Constantine's victory over co-emperor Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis ( Üsküdar ) in 324, Nicomedia served as an interim capital city for Constantine the Great between 324 and 330, until the nearby Byzantium was officially declared Nova Roma ( later known as Constantinople, present-day Istanbul ).

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

The Onomasticon has traditionally been dated before 324, on the basis of its sparse references to Christianity, and complete absence of remarks on Constantine's buildings in the Holy Land.

When asked by Constantia ( Emperor Constantine's sister ) for an image of Jesus, Eusebius denied the request, replying that " To depict purely the human form of Christ before its transformation, on the other hand, is to break the commandment of God and to fall into pagan error ".

Here Lactantius preserves the story of Constantine's vision of the Chi Rho before his conversion to Christianity.

She was brought out of her retirement in a convent, convened the Senate and was proclaimed " emperor " by the imperial guard shortly before Constantine's death.

Alan Moore, co-creator of the jaded, chain-smoking, modern-day British wizard John Constantine in Swamp Thing, hand-picked Jamie Delano to continue Constantine's adventures as star of the DC title Hellblazer ( 1988 – present ), but Delano left that series in 1991 before the launch of Vertigo.

As a consequence both incidents increased mutual misunderstanding, shortly before Constantine's accession to the throne.

In a memoir of the Roman emperor that Eusebius wrote after Constantine's death ( On the Life of Constantine, circa 337 – 339 ), a miraculous appearance came in Gaul long before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.

Gildas is clear that Constantine's sins were manifold even before this, as he had committed " many adulteries " after casting off his lawfully wedded wife.

These structures were certainly formalized well before the end of the Early Christian period, which concluded with the legalization of Christianity by Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 and the holding of the First Council of Nicea in 325, when the title of Metropolitan bishop first appears.

Constantine's Shaper family has been disgraced by Constantine's defeat, and Lindsay manages to convert them to his cause, even Constantine's " daughter " Vera ( created from DNA taken from Vera Kelland decades before ).

Little is known of the appearance of this original church except that it was cross-shaped, but the historian Eusebius ( c. 263 – 339 ) gives the following description of Constantine's mausoleum and the surrounding grounds before Constantius ' church was built:

* Constantine's Dream ( 329 x 190 cm ) Emperor Constantine the Great, before the battle of Milvian Bridge, is awakened by an angel who shows him the cross in heaven.

Constantine's rule, however, validated Diocletian's achievements and the autocratic principle he represented: the borders remained secure, in spite of Constantine's large expenditure of forces during his civil wars ; the bureaucratic transformation of Roman government was completed ; and Constantine took Diocletian's court ceremonies and made them even more extravagant.

Zosimus mentions it, vaguely, as being a wooden construction while others specify that it was a pontoon bridge ; sources are also unclear as to whether the bridge was deliberately constructed as a collapsible trap for Constantine's forces or not.

As his forces broadly encircled the enemy cavalry, Constantine's own cavalry charged at the sides of the Maxentian cataphracts, beating them with iron-tipped clubs.

Constantine's two generals Iustinianus and the Frank Nebiogastes, leading the vanguard of his forces, were defeated by Sarus, and Stilicho's lieutenant, with Nebiogastes being first trapped in, then killed outside, Valence.

Constantine's position grew even more untenable ; his forces facing the rebel Gerontius were defeated at Vienne ( 411 ), where his son Constans was captured and executed.

Constantine's attempt to play them off one another only succeeds in making them join forces in a further plot.

On 21 May 1916, the day of King Constantine's name-day, the French forces of General Sarrail imposed martial law in Thessaloniki ( despite British opposition ), occupying the post office, the telegraph office, the telephone office, the railway facilities, the power station, and the gasworks.

While Licinius ' co-emperor Sextus Martinianus was killed, Licinius himself was spared due to the pleas of his wife, Constantine's sister, and interned at Thessalonica.

Maximin considered Constantine's arrangement with Licinius an affront to his authority.

The two Augusti were in Milan to celebrate the wedding of Constantine's younger half-sister Constantia with Licinius.

Licinius marries Constantine's sister Constantia.

The death of Galerius in May 311 and Constantine's spectacular victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312, left only three Emperors: in the East, Maximinus Daia and Licinius ; in the West, Constantine.

Constantia, Constantine's half-sister and Licinius ' wife, acted as intermediary.

A year later, Constantine's nephew the younger Licinius also fell victim to the emperor's anger or suspicions.

Following Constantine's victory over Licinius and the unification of the Empire under his rule, the office was transformed.