Just before coming to the mosque entrance I crossed the street, entered the Hippodrome, and walked ahead to the Obelisk of Theodosius, originally erected in Heliopolis in Egypt about 1,600 B.C. by Thutmose, who also built those now in New York, London and Rome at the Lateran.

* 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.

Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

In the East, Emperor Theodosius I likewise professed the Nicene creed ; but there were many adherents of Arianism throughout his dominions, especially among the higher clergy.

Theodosius I, the emperor of the East, espoused the cause of Justina, and regained the kingdom.

Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism .< ref name = " MacMullen1984p100 "> MacMullen ( 1984 ) p. 100: ‘ The law of June 391, issued by Theodosius [...] was issued from Milan and represented the will of its bishop, Ambrose ; for Theodosius — recently excommunicated by Ambrose, penitent, and very much under his influence < sup > 43 </ sup > — was no natural zealot.

In 394 Alaric served as a leader of foederati under Theodosius I in the campaign which crushed the usurper Eugenius.

He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius.

Arcadius was born in Hispania, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor.

The earliest known representation of angels with wings is on what is called the Prince's Sarcophagus, discovered at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of Theodosius I ( 379-395 ).

In 391, Theodosius I decreed that any land that had been confiscated from the church by Roman authorities be returned.

A first wall was erected by Constantine I, and the city was surrounded by a double wall lying about 2 km to the west of the first wall, begun during the 5th century by Theodosius II.

Theodosius I was the last Roman emperor who ruled over an undivided empire ( detail from the Obelisk at the Hippodrome of Constantinople

Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.

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.

The Arian influence grew so strong during his tenure in the Imperial court that it wasn't until the end of the Constantinian dynasty and the appointment of Theodosius I that Arianism lost its influence in the Empire.

He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the eastern emperor Arcadius.

After holding the consulate at the age of two, Honorius was declared Augustus by his father Theodosius I, and thus co-ruler, on 23 January 393 after the death of Valentinian II and the usurpation of Eugenius.

* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.

It was the first Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople and was called by Theodosius I in 381.

Theodosius committed the matter to Ascholius, the much respected bishop of Thessalonica, charging him to seek the counsel of Pope Damasus I.

Nestorius (; in Greek: Νεστόριος ; 386 – 451 ) was Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to August 431 ( when the emperor Theodosius II confirmed his condemnation by the Cyrillian faction at Ephesus on 22 June ).

Theodosius II (; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450 ), commonly surnamed Theodosius the Younger, or Theodosius the Calligrapher, was Byzantine Emperor from 408 to 450.

* January 11 – Theodosius I, Roman Emperor ( d. 395 )

When Theodosius died, in January 395, Honorius and Arcadius divided the Empire, so that Honorius became Western Roman Emperor at the age of ten.

She was present at Theodosius ' death on January 17, 395.

After the death in 392 of Valentinian II, whom Theodosius had supported against a variety of usurpations, Theodosius ruled as sole Emperor, appointing his younger son Honorius Augustus as his co-ruler for the West ( Milan, on 23 January 393 ) and by defeating the usurper Eugenius on 6 September 394, at the Battle of the Frigidus ( Vipava river, modern Slovenia ) he restored peace.

In January 393, Theodosius gave his son Honorius the full rank of " Augustus " in the West, citing Eugenius ' illegitimacy.

* January 24 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and evolutionary biologist ( d. 1975 )

* January 17 – Emperor Theodosius I, age 48, dies after a disease involving severe edema, at Milan.

* January 17 – Theodosius I, Roman Emperor ( b. 347 )

* January 23 – Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his son Honorius, age 8, co-ruler ( Augustus ) of the Western Roman Empire.

* January 19 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium, giving him the title Augustus with power over all the eastern provinces.

* January or February – Emperor Theodosius I is baptized.

In the same year, the government of the Eastern Empire devolved upon Gratian, but feeling himself unable to resist unaided the incursions of the barbarians, he promoted Theodosius I on 19 January 379 to govern that portion of the Empire.

Theodosius initially tolerated this regime but, in January 393, elevated the eight year old Honorius as augustus to succeed Valentinian II.

But two years later, in 378, after the Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople, the younger Theodosius was rehabilitated, placed in charge of the Roman armies in the eastern half of the empire, and quickly elevated to the rank of emperor on January 19, 379 following his successes in the field.

Theodosius also promoted his eight-year-old son Honorius to the rank of " Augustus " of the West in January 393.

At the end of the four years ' course, he still felt no vocation for the priesthood, and returning to England he joined the theatrical company of Crump & Chamberlain, his first appearance being as Theodosius in Nathaniel Lee's tragedy of that name at Wolverhampton on 8 January 1776.

Theodosius Harnack ( 3 January 1817, Saint Petersburg – 23 September 1889, Tartu ) was a Baltic German theologian.

On 17 January 395, Theodosius I succumbed to death by oedema in Milan.

During the period immediately after Theodosius ' death, in January 395, Rufinus was virtually the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire, since he exercised great influence over the young Emperor Arcadius.