With the loss of the Emperor diety in Japan, the people are left in confusion with no God or moral teachings that have strength.

* 1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan ( d. 1239 )

* 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan ( d. 1364 )

* 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan ( d. 1433 )

* 1079 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan ( d. 1107 )

* 1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1297 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan ( d. 1348 )

* 1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan ( d. 1068 )

* 1336 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan ( d. 1374 )

* 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan ( d. 1762 )

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

Two years later, he received the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, and in 1991, was awarded the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan.

* 1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.

For example, the year in Japan is based on the reign of the current emperor: 2006 was Year 18 of the Emperor Akihito.

One notable exception is the abolition of the death penalty by the Emperor Saga of Japan in 818.

At the time, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyoshi was the de-facto ruler of Japan ; for the Emperor to interact in any way with foreigners was out of the question.

* 1308 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.

* 535 – Emperor Ankan of Japan ( b. 466 )

* 1348 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan ( b. 1297 )

* 1941 – Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.

* 1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan ( b. 1377 )

* 1178 – Emperor Antoku of Japan ( d. 1185 )

* 1009 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan ( d. 1045 )

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.

* 681 – Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.

Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor.

In the history of India, Ashoka is referred to as Samraat Chakravartin Ashoka – the " Emperor of Emperors Ashoka ".

One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).

* 435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

* 1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.

* 982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria

Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.

** Battle of Placentia — Emperor Aurelian is defeated by the Alemanni forces invading Italy

* 378, Battle of Argentovaria — Western Emperor Gratianus is victorious over the Alemanni, yet again.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

* 1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

Although some sources state that Ealdred attended the coronation of Emperor Henry IV, this is not possible, as on the date that Henry was crowned, Ealdred was in England consecrating an abbot.

Alexander is apparently mentioned in the Edicts of Ashoka, as one of the recipients of the Indian Emperor Ashoka's Buddhist proselytism, although no Western historical record of this event remains.

The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is the phrase Vicisti, Galilaee, Latin for " You have conquered, O Galilean ", the apocryphal dying words of the Emperor Julian.

* 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Aurelianus is depicted as the aging High King of Britain, a " too-ambitious " son of a Western Roman Emperor.

* 193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum ( in the Balkans ).

* 1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).