Cyril did not return to Jerusalem until 366 after Valens had died.

Emperor Valens died in 378.

From 364 to 375, the Roman Empire was governed by two co-emperors, the brothers Valentinian I and Valens ; when Valentinian died in 375, his sons, Valentinian II and Gratian, succeeded him as rulers of the Western Roman Empire.

Valens ' final fate is unknown ; he probably died anonymously on the field.

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.

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.

** Valens Acidalius, German critic and Latin poet ( died 1595 )

This led to an incident involving Ritchie's sister: When at the screening she sees Phillips ( as Valens ) boarding the plane for their ill-fated flight, the scene was interrupted by Connie Lemos ( Ritchie's real-life sister ), who was only six years old when her brother died.

Ritchie Valens was only 17 years old when he died, eight months after he signed to Del-Fi Records and produced three songs that hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The town of Clear Lake is known as the place the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens took off from on the day they died ; their last performance was at the Surf Ballroom.

* Gaius Manlius Valens ( circa AD 6-96 ), consul in AD 96, and died the same year.

In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly was on tour when he, together with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, died in an airplane crash.

Soon after, on August 9, 378, Valens was defeated at the Battle of Adrianople and died in a fire after taking refuge in a barn.

Buddy also has a duel with a musician ( wielding a ukulele ) resembling Richie Valens, who died in the same 1959 plane crash as the original Buddy Holly.

Valens ( died 250 AD ) is one of the Thirty Tyrants, a list of Roman usurpers compiled by the author ( s ) of the Historia Augusta.

In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, following a concert at the Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear Lake, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died in a plane crash after taking off from the Mason City Municipal Airport.

* In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, following a concert at the Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear Lake, Iowa, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died after the Beechcraft Bonanza they were flying in crashed after taking off from the Mason City Municipal Airport.

At the accession of Valens ( 364 ), he retired to his estate at Lesbos, but soon returned to Constantinople, where he died in 367.

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

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.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

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.

In 378, after Valens was killed in the Battle of Adrianople, Gratian invited Theodosius to take command of the Illyrian army.

Valens, sometimes known as the Last True Roman, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the collapse of the decaying Western Roman Empire.

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

* April – May – Emperor Valens defeats the troops of Procopius in the Battle of Thyatira, bringing an end to his revolt ; Serenianus and Marcellus are killed.

* December – Battle of Mardia: Constantine I defeats his rival Licinius and senior officier Valerius Valens near the town of Harmanli ( Bulgaria ).

The Battle of Adrianople ( 9 August 378 ), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels ( largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels ) led by Fritigern.

* Valens and the Battle of Adrianople ( Hadrianopolis ) by N. S.

Nikephoros was killed in the battle, the second Eastern Emperor to suffer this fate since Valens in the Battle of Adrianople ( August 9, 378 ).

That same year, his uncle Valens was killed in the Battle of Adrianople against the Goths – making Gratian essentially ruler of the entire Roman Empire.

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

Licinius was defeated there by Constantine I in 323, and Valens was killed by the Goths in 378 during the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ).

* 378 – Valens is defeated and killed by the Goths at the Battle of Adrianople.

In 378 Valens attacked the invaders with the Eastern field army, perhaps some 20, 000 men – possibly only 10 % of the soldiers nominally available in the Danube provinces – and in the Battle of Adrianople, 9th August 378, he lost much of that army and his own life.

However, after a period of famine, a large contingent, led predominantly by what became the Visigoths, rebelled against the Byzantines and defeated Emperor Valens at the famous Battle of Adrianople in 378.

* The first war with the Visigoths ( 376-382 ), culminating in the Battle of Adrianople ( August 9, 378 ), in which a large Roman army was defeated by the Visigoths, and Emperor Valens was killed.

** 378, Battle of Adrianople, Eastern Emperor Valens dies in battle, Begin of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire.

* Valens ( 328 – 78 ), the Emperor who led his army to a catastrophic defeat in the Battle of Adrianople.

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.

* Fearing they will join Fritigern, Roman troops of Gothic origin stationed in Adrianople are ordered by Valens to move east.

Valens already west of Adrianople, returns back and established a fortified camp outside the city.

On 6 August, reconnaissance informed Valens that about 10, 000 Goths were marching towards Adrianople from the north, about 25 kilometers away.

Despite the difficult ground, Valens reached Adrianople where the Roman army fortified its camp with ditch and rampart.

On the morning of 9 August, Valens decamped from Adrianople, where he left the imperial treasury and administration under the guard of the legions.

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.

After they settled, quarrels soon took place, and the Goths under Fritigern defeated Valens in a great battle near Adrianople.