One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity and the last Roman Emperor to speak Latin as a first language, Justinian's rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

* February 3 – Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late Emperor Kōmei's son, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan in a brief ceremony in Kyoto, ending the Late Tokugawa shogunate.

A prominent general of the Late Roman army, Majorian deposed Emperor Avitus in 457 and succeeded him.

It is interesting that Brian is not referred to in the passage from the ' Book of Armagh ' as the ' Ard Ri ' — that is, High-King — but rather he is declared " Imperator Scottorum ," or " Emperor of the Irish " (" Scottorum " then being the common Late Latin term for the Irish: Ireland was usually referred to in Latin as " Scotia Major " while Scotland was referred to as " Scotia Minor ").

His relationship with the Emperor allowed him to pursue a military career that, after minor initial successes, ended in 468, when he led the disastrous Roman invasion of Vandal Africa, in one of the largest military operations of Late Antiquity.

Late in 805, Emperor Shunzong yielded the throne to his son Li Chun the Crown Prince ( as Emperor Xianzong ).

The Emperor Gallienus Augustus ( 253 – 268 AD ) and his general and would-be usurper Aureolus bear much of the responsibility for the institution of Roman cataphract contingents in the Late Roman army.

In the Late Middle Ages it referred to any vassal of the Holy Roman Emperor ruling over an immediate estate.

Late in 494, under the stated reason that Southern Qi's Emperor Ming had usurped the throne ( from his grandnephew Xiao Zhaowen ), Emperor Xiaowen prepared a major campaign against Southern Qi, departing Luoyang about new year 495.

The Late Roman fortified palace compound and memorial complex of Gamzigrad-Romuliana at the outskirts of Zaječar was commissioned by Emperor Caius Valerius Galerius Maximianus, in the late 3rd and early 4th century.

Late in Emperor Suzong's reign, he was exiled upon Li Fuguo's urging.

Late in his reign, Emperor Xuan began to moderately become luxurious in living, but was still comparatively thrifty in his expenditures.

Late in the day, Chen Zhun ( 陳準 ), who secretly supported Sima Yun, persuaded Emperor Hui to give him a banner that showed imperial support and was able to deliver it to Sima Yun, but his messenger, a friend of Sima Lun's son Sima Qian ( 司馬虔 ), instead tricked Sima Yun into receiving the banner and, as he did, cut off his head.

Late in 318, when the Han Zhao emperor Liu Can was overthrown by his official Jin Zhun, Jin Zhun initially indicated that he was submitting to Emperor Yuan's authority, and Emperor Yuan tried to take advantage by sending an army to assist Jin Zhun.

Late in his life, Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia was confronted with the problem of his succession ; if he did not explicitly name an heir before he died, the nation he had built would likely dissolve into civil war and be devoured by European colonial powers.

Late that year, Liu Yu, intending to seize the throne and believing a prophecy stating, " There will be two more emperors after Changming " ( Changming, which meant " dawn ," was the courtesy name of Emperor Xiaowu ), became intent on killing Emperor An and replacing him with Sima Dewen.

These images adapt Late Antique poses for barbarians submitting to an Emperor, and presenting golden wreaths, and indeed relate to images of tribute-bearers from various Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern cultures going back many centuries.

* Henry Blanc, A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia ; With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People ( 1868 ), available at Project Gutenberg

The Late Roman army is the term used to denote the military forces of the Roman Empire from the accession of Emperor Diocletian in 284 until the Empire's definitive division into Eastern and Western halves in 395.

Late in his life, Babbage sought ways to build a simplified version of the machine, and assembled a small part of it before his death in 1871.

* c. 4 Ga: End of Late Heavy Bombardment, first life

The economic might and relatively advanced development of Tuscany at the time ( Late Middle Ages ) gave its dialect weight, though the Venetian language remained widespread in medieval Italian commercial life, and Ligurian ( or Genoese ) remained in use in maritime trade alongside the Mediterranean.

Late in the summer of 388 he was back in Israel, and spent the remainder of his life in a hermit's cell near Bethlehem, surrounded by a few friends, both men and women ( including Paula and Eustochium ), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher.

Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known.

Late in life Ayn Rand renewed her childhood interest in stamps and became an enthusiastic collector.

Late in his life Fyodor Dostoyevski wrote " The Meek One " ( 1876 ) and " The Dream of a Ridiculous Man " ( 1877 ), two stories with great psychological and philosophical depth.

Late that day, Police Commissioner J. M. Adkison said he had received an anonymous telephone call threatening Rowland's life.

Late in life he wrote two greatly admired sonatas for clarinet and piano, his Op. 120 ( 1894 ): he later transcribed these works for the viola ( the solo part in his horn trio is also available in a transcription for viola ).

Late in life Turnbull took up the political cause of death row inmates.

Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-tenth century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, " the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life ", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.

Late in life, regarding his time in real-estate-speculation-mad San Francisco, Sherman recalled: " I can handle a hundred thousand men in battle, and take the City of the Sun, but am afraid to manage a lot in the swamp of San Francisco.

Late in his life, he lived in Eilat, Israel.

* Late in his life, the widowed ex-king Fernando II of Portugal married the opera singer Elise Hensler, who was created countess of Edla.

Late in the 19th century, Richards convened a group of contemporaries to discuss the essence of domestic science and how the elements of this discipline would ultimately improve the quality of life for many individuals and families.

Late in his life, Derrida participated in two biographical documentaries, D ' ailleurs, Derrida Elsewhere by Saafa Fathy ( 1999 ), and Derrida by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman ( 2002 ).

Late in life she moved to Barbados, where she died at the age of 92, following a series of strokes.

Late in his life he was briefly director of New York's Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.

Late in life, he served as narrator for a British television series on the films of Charlie Chaplin, Unknown Chaplin, which was aired in the U. S. on PBS and later issued on home video.

Late in his life, Melampus was kidnapped.

By 1851 the " Chaumont suite " of early-16th century Late Gothic tapestries with subjects of courntry life emblemmatic of the triumph of Eternity, closely associated with Chaumont and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was still hanging in the " Chambre de Catherine de Médicis "; the tapestries had been cut and pieced to fit the room.

Late in life he came to regret his role in helping U. S. slavery to expand, and became a leading opponent of the annexation of Texas.

Late in life Eakins did experience some recognition.