* Sebastian, arrived from Italy previously, and clearly operating as one of Valens ' generals.

* Gaius Fabius Valens, one of the principal generals of Vitellius, and consul suffectus ex kal.

Moses of Chorene of Armenia and Roman Ammianus Marcellinus noted that the Valens ' generals did not participate in the battle actively but rather were engaged in protecting the King.

* Traianus, apparently in command of Roman forces before Valens assumed command, who was described as an illustrious man whose death in the battle was a great loss.

* 377 – 378: Traianus, magister peditum under Valens

Valens then assigned Traianus to gain Pap's confidence and murder him.

Later that year, Valens met his death in the Battle of Adrianople on 9 August.

When Macrianus rebelled to Gallienus, he met the opposition of Valens, so he sent Piso to put him to death.

* Valens concludes a peace with the Persian Empire and leaves enough troops to defend the eastern frontier.

* Valentinian I rules from Caledonia ( Scotland ) to the Rhine frontier the Western Roman Empire and Valens reigns from the Danube to the Persian border the Eastern Roman Empire.

Valens ' army may have included troops from any of three Roman field armies: the Army of Thrace, based in the eastern Balkans, but which may have sustained heavy losses in 376 – 377, the 1st Army in the Emperor's Presence, and the 2nd Army in the Emperor's Presence, both based at Constantinople in peacetime but committed to the Persian frontier in 376 and sent west in 377 – 378.

The Emperor Valens, however, revived Constantius ' policy and supported the " Homoian " party, exiling bishops and often using force.

Valens inherited the eastern portion of an empire that had recently retreated from most of its holdings in Mesopotamia and Armenia because of a treaty that his predecessor Jovian had made with Shapur II of the Sassanid Empire.

* King Shapur II declares war as a result of Valens ' support of Armenia.

Valens dispatched his magister peditum praesentalis Arinthaeus to Armenia just as Shapur II invaded the country in pursuit of Pap who was hiding near the Roman frontier in Lazica.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

If the Bastarnae remained an identifiable group, it is highly likely that they participated in the vast Gothic-led migration, driven by Hunnic pressure, that was admitted into Moesia by emperor Valens in 376 and eventually defeated and killed Valens at Adrianople in 378.

He is featured performing at the Surf Ballroom and boarding the doomed airplane with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.

Valens permitted this, and even assisted the Goths in their crossing of the river ( probably at the fortress of Durostorum ).

The Roman Emperor Valens was killed at the Battle of Adrianople in 378.

Valens, attempting to put down the disorder, was killed in battle with the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Adrianople on 9 August 378.

Marching out from Ancyra through Pessinus, Valens proceeded into Phrygia where he defeated Procopius's general Gomoarius at the Battle of Thyatira.

Suetonius, whose father had fought for Otho at Bedriacum, gives an unfavourable account of Vitellius ' brief administration: he describes him as unambitious and notes that Vitellius showed indications of a desire to govern wisely, but that Valens and Caecina encouraged him in a course of vicious excesses which threw his better qualities into the background.

* Spring – Emperor Valens crosses the Danube at Noviodunum ( Romania ), and attacks the Gothic tribes ( Greuthungi and Tervingi ).

As Holly's group had been the backing band for all of the acts, Holly, Valens and Dion DiMucci ( of Dion and the Belmonts ) took turns playing drums for each other at the Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Clear Lake, Iowa, shows.

Fans of Holly, Valens, and Richardson have been gathering for memorial concerts at the Surf Ballroom annually since 1979 ..

Valentinian selected his brother Valens as co-Augustus at Constantinople on 28 March 364.

Valens resided in Constantinople, while Valentinian ’ s court was at Milan.

In 378, their uncle, the Emperor Valens, was killed in battle with the Goths at Adrianople, and Gratian invited the general Theodosius to be emperor in the East.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Brian Wilson and his bandmates, following a set by Ike and Tina Turner, performed their first major live show at The Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance on New Year's Eve, 1961.

The last traces of Emperors being at the same time chief pontiffs are found in inscriptions of Valentinian I, Valens, and Gratian ( Orelli, Inscript.

His urgent and repeated request for a public discussion with his opponents, especially with Ursacius and Valens, proved at last so inconvenient that he was sent back to his diocese, which he appears to have reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor Julian.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash en route to their scheduled performance at the Moorhead Armory Building from Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959.

When Caecina joined his forces with those of Fabius Valens, Suetonius advised Otho not to risk a battle but was overruled, leading to Otho's decisive defeat at Bedriacum.

The pair played numerous times at the 50 Winters Later celebration, in February, 2009, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper.

Anne Roes found it on coins of Constantius II, Valentinian, Jovian, Gratianus, Valens, Arcadius, Constantine III, Jovinus, Theodosius I, Eugenius and Theodosius II, though she searched only coins at the British Museum.

Valens obtained the eastern half of the Empire Greece, Egypt, Syria and Anatolia as far east as Persia.

Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot were killed en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, when their plane crashed soon after taking off from nearby Mason City in the early morning hours of February 3.

In 376, the Ostrogoths, fleeing from the Huns, received permission from the Roman emperor Valens ( r. 364 – 378 ) to settle in the Roman province of Thracia.

She did so, but complained that this Pagan writer said nothing about ecclesiastical affairs and stopped with the accession of the emperor Valens in 364 ; consequently Paul interwove extracts from the Scriptures, from the ecclesiastical historians and from other sources with Eutropius, and added six books, thus bringing the history down to 553.

Valens (; 328 – 9 August 378 ) was the Eastern Roman Emperor from 364 to 378.

The following spring, a Danube flood prevented Valens from crossing ; instead the Emperor occupied his troops with the construction of fortifications.

In 369, Valens crossed again, from Noviodunum, and attacked the north-easterly Gothic tribe of Greuthungi before facing Athanaric's Tervingi and defeating them.

* Gothic War: Emperor Valens permits the Visigothic chieftain Fritigern and his people to cross the Danube from Thrace ( later Romania ) and settle on Roman soil in Lower Moesia on condition that they provide soldiers to the legions.

* Valens builds a pontoon bridge across the Danube and drives the Visigoths farther north, where they will come under pressure from the advancing Huns.

Allsup lost a coin toss to Ritchie Valens for his seat on the plane, while Jennings gave up his seat to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold and complaining about how uncomfortable a long bus trip was for a man of his size.

* An edict issued by Valentinian I and Valens bans the importation of wine and olive oil from areas controlled by the barbarians.

* Emperor Valens orders the expulsion of the Alexandrian bishop Athanasius from his see, but instead of going into exile Athanasius, now about 67, moves to the outskirts of Alexandria.

The earliest sources that mention Fritigern originate from the period in which Valens, emperor of the Roman Empire, attacked the Thervingi ( 367-369 ) and from the period in which the Huns raided the Thervingi ( ca.

While Fritigern asked Valens to allow the Thervingi to cross the northern Roman border and settle in Moesia or Thracia, with the Danube River and Roman frontier forts protecting them from the Huns, ( thus this was a form of asylum ), Athanaric and many of his followers retreated to Caucaland ( probably Transylvania ).

The it seems unknown to Pliny the Elder, so Valens ' mother was probably not his sister Plinia ; perhaps Valens was Lutulla's son from an earlier relationship.

Valens would bring more troops from Syria and Gratian would bring more troops from Gaul.