The first council that accepted the present canon of the New Testament may have been the Synod of Hippo Regius in North Africa ( AD 393 ); the acts of this council, however, are lost.

" This Oracle's last recorded response was given in 393 AD, when the emperor Theodosius I ordered pagan temples to cease operation.

The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years in the Greek city of Olympia, in the Kingdom of Elis, from 776 BC through either 261 or 393 AD.

The last recorded response was given during AD 393, when the emperor Theodosius I ordered pagan temples to cease operation.

* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD

** “ City of the Damned ,” written by John Wagner and Alan Grant, art by Steve Dillon ( episodes 1, 5 – 7, 12 – 13 ), Ron Smith ( 2 – 3, 10, 14 ), Kim Raymond ( 4, 11 ) and Ian Gibson ( 8 – 9 ), in 2000 AD # 393 – 406 ( 1984 )

* The Stainless Steel Rat for President, 12 episodes, 2000 AD progs 393 – 404 ( Nov. 1984 to Feb. 1985 ).

Despite the destruction the Olympic festival continued to be held at the site until the last Olympiad in 393 AD, after which a decree from the Christian emperor, Theodosius I implemented a ban.

It was predictably in Greece that sports were first instituted formally, with the first Olympic Games recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, where they were celebrated until 393 AD.

Pankration, from the Greek words " Pan " and " Kratos " meaning " the one who controls everything ", is a world heritage martial art with the unique distinction of being the only martial sport in existence today that can legitimately trace its roots to the ancient Olympic Games from 648 BC to 393 AD.

Between 776 BC to 393 AD, the ancient Greek physicians planned the training regimens and diets of the Olympic competitors, which developed many principles still used today.

Caestūs boxing became increasingly bloody until hand-to-hand fighting was officially banned in 393 AD.

Saint Hippolytus ( c. 170-c. 236 AD ), the Father of the Church History Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – c. 339 AD ), and the Christian bishop Theodoret ( c. 393 – c. 457 AD ) regarded him as a father of Armenians.

For the 776 BC to AD 393 Games see Ancient Olympic Games.

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

* The Emperor Nero was born in AD 37 to the Domitius above as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( named after Domitius's father Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC )).

The Roman province by that name had been on hiatus from 27 BC and re-established by Emperor Vespasian only in 72 AD.

From Emperor Claudius ( reigned AD 41 – 54 ) onwards, Varro's calculation ( see below ) superseded other contemporary calculations.

In his Easter table the year 532 AD was equated with the regnal year 248 of Emperor Diocletian.

When the Roman Emperor Hadrian vowed to rebuild Jerusalem from the wreckage in 130 AD, he considered reconstructing Jerusalem as a gift for the Jewish people.

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The location of Byzantium attracted Roman Emperor Constantine I who, in 330 AD, refounded it as an imperial residence inspired by Rome itself.

In 36 AD, Emperor Nero transferred Barcelonnette to the province of the Cottian Alps.

These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age ( about 3200 BC ) to the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I in the 4th century AD.

Dalmatia was the birthplace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, who, upon retirement from Emperor in AD 305, built a large palace near Salona, out of which the city of Split later developed.

Claudius ( Latin: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54 ) was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54.

Tibetans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements early on with the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), including Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tufan in 638.

Caligula (; 31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41 ), also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD.

In AD 33, Tiberius gave Caligula an honorary quaestorship, a position he held until his rise to Emperor.

When in AD 451, Emperor Marcianus attempted to heal divisions in the Church, the response of Pope Dioscorus – the Pope of Alexandria who was later exiled – was that the emperor should not intervene in the affairs of the Church.

At the Istanbul Archaeological Museum a marble plate contains a law by the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I ( 491-518 AD ), that regulated fees for passage through the customs office of the Dardanelles ( see image to the right ).

Augustus, the first Emperor ( r. 27 BC – AD 14 ), had nominally shared power with his colleagues, and more formal offices of co-Emperor had existed from Marcus Aurelius ( r. 161 – 80 ) on.

Claudius died around the year AD 54, and his successor, Emperor Nero, allowed the Jews back into Rome, but then, after the Great Fire of Rome of 64, persecuted the Christians.

There is suspicion that Emperor Keitai ( c. 500 AD ) may have been an unrelated outsider, though the sources state that he was a male-line descendant of Emperor Ōjin.

The Oracle continued until it was closed by emperor Theodosius I in AD 395.

The temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperor Theodosius I silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and works of art in the name of Christianity.

In 325 AD Constantine I abolished the system and restored single emperor rule, but following the death of Theodosius in 395 AD, the empire returned to the system of co-emperors, each with primary authority for half the empire.

In AD 381 Christians requested Theodosius I to strip Manichaeans of their civil rights.

This was shortly after the Roman Emperor Theodosius I had issued a decree of death for Manichaeans in AD 382 and shortly before he declared Christianity to be the only legitimate religion for the Roman Empire in 391.

The temple it originally came from was probably closed around AD 392 when Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I ordered the closing of all non-Christian temples of worship.

The Roman emperor Theodosius I closed the sanctuaries by decree in 392 AD.

It remained in use " apparently for decades after the edicts of Theodosius in 391 and 392 AD outlawing paganism ".

In Christian tradition there is the well-known story of " The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ", recounting a group of early Christians who hid in a cave about 250 AD, to escape the persecution of Christians during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius, fell into a miraculous sleep and woke some 200 years later during the reign of Theodosius II, to discover that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian.

Early in the fifth century AD Claudian, in his poem, On the Fourth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius, Book VIII, rhapsodizes on the conquests of the emperor Theodosius I, declaring that the Orcades ran red with Saxon slaughter ; Thule was warm with the blood of Picts ; ice-bound Hibernia wept for the heaps of slain Scots.

In 447 AD he consecrated Irenaeus to the see of Tyre ( Theodoret, Epistle 110 ); but emperor Theodosius II, commanded that the appointment should be annulled on the grounds that Irenaeus was both a digamus and a supporter of Nestorianism.

In 394 AD, emperor Theodosius I abolished them as they were then considered reminiscent of paganism.

The Seven Sleepers were included in the Golden Legend compilation, the most popular book of the later Middle Ages, which fixed a precise date for their resurrection, 378 AD, in the reign of Theodosius.

The exact dates of their alleged sleep are also not given in the Qur ' an ; some allege that they entered the cave at the time of Decius ( 250 AD ) and they woke up at the time of Theodosius I ( 378 – 395 ) or Theodosius II ( 408 – 450 ), but neither of these dates can be reconciled with the Qur ' an's account of sleeping 300 or 309 years.

* Roman civil war of 387 – 388 AD, between Theodosius I and Magnus Maximus-victory to Theodosius I.

* Roman civil war of 394 AD, between Theodosius I and Arbogast-victory to Theodosius I.

It was last rebuilt in 191 AD on the orders of Julia Domna, the wife of the emperor Septimius Severus, The rites of Vesta ended in 394 by order of Theodosius I.