Valens permitted this, as he saw in them " a splendid recruiting ground for his army.

In 376, Valens permitted Fritigern's people to cross the Danube River and settle on Roman soil to avoid the Huns, who had recently conquered the Greuthungs and were now pressing the Thervings then living in Dacia.

When news arrived that Procopius had revolted, Valens considered abdication and perhaps even suicide.

One literary tradition claims that Decius was betrayed by his successor Trebonianus Gallus, who was involved in a secret alliance with the Goths but this cannot be substantiated and was most likely a later invention since Gallus felt compelled to adopt Decius ' younger son, Gaius Valens Hostilianus, as joint emperor even though the latter was too young to rule in his own right.

In Egypt, if not even before leaving Italy, he had become intimately acquainted with Melania the Elder, a wealthy and devout Roman widow ; and when she removed to Palestine, taking with her a number of clergy and monks on whom the persecutions of the Arian Valens had borne heavily, Rufinus ( about 378 ) followed her.

Her forces proved less effective outside of their native territory and the Goths pushed the Romans back to Constantinople, even killing Valens, the emperor, in the process.

In this, the emperor was assisted by five chief lawyers: L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, an author of legal treatises ; L. Volusius Maecianus, chosen to conduct the legal studies of Marcus Aurelius, and author of a large work on Fidei Commissa ( Testamentary Trusts ); L. Ulpius Marcellus, a prolific writer ; and two others.

The Gothic people in the northern region had supported Procopius in his revolt against Valens, and Valens had learned the Goths were planning an uprising of their own.

In the spring of 367, Valens crossed the Danube and marched on Athanaric's Goths.

The Goths remained in Dacia until 376, when one of their leaders, Fritigern, appealed to the Roman emperor Valens to be allowed to settle with his people on the south bank of the Danube.

* Gothic War: Valens sends Sebastian with a body of picked troops ( 2, 000 men ) to Thrace and renews the guerilla war against the Goths.

* Emperor Valens requests his nephew Gratian to send Roman troops against the Goths.

Valens ( of the Eastern Empire ) then asked Gratian, the western emperor, for reinforcements to fight the Goths.

After learning of Sebastian's success against the Goths, and of Gratian's victory over the Alamanni, Valens was more than ready for a victory of his own.

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

Valens ' men fired arrows from the second floor to defend the cottage and in response the Goths set the cottage on fire.

The Goths, though partly tamed by Valens ' successor Theodosius I ( who accepted them once more as allies ), were to remain as a distinct entity within its frontiers ; sometimes allies ; other times enemies.

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.

Valens refused to wait for Gratian and his army to arrive and assist in defeating the host of Goths, Alans and Huns ; as a result, two-thirds of the eastern Roman army were killed as well.

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.

Hard-pressed by the Huns, the Goths again crossed the Danube during the reign of Valens ( 376 ) and with his permission settled in Moesia.

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

In 376 AD, some of the Goths asked Emperor Valens to allow them to settle on the southern bank of the Danube river, and were accepted into the empire as foederati.

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.

His next orations are to the young Valentinian II upon his consulship, 369, and to the senate of Constantinople, in the presence of Valens, in honour of the peace granted to the Goths, 370.

Valens became the third Emperor ( after Decius and Julian ) to be killed in battle with a foreign enemy ( the Goths ); only two more Emperors were ever killed in battle by foreign enemies: Nikephoros I by the Bulgars in 811 and Konstantinos XI Palaeologos by the Turks in 1453.

# Manners of the Pastoral Nations – Progress of the Huns – Flight of the Goths – They Pass the Danube – Gothic War – Defeat and Death of Valens – Gratian Invests Theodosius I with the Eastern Empire – His Character and Success – Peace and Settlement of the Goths

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.

The tour also featured rising artist Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper Richardson, who were promoting their records, as well.

In addition the new hit artist Ritchie Valens ,, J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson and Dion DiMucci, joined the tour to promote their recordings and to make an extra profit.

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.

Cerro Gordo County was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959.

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.

The years during which Eudoxius and Valens acted together were allegedly troubled by portents, which Homoousians attributed to the anger of Heaven at Valens ' banishment of bishops who would not admit Eudoxius to their communion.

Both Eustathius and Evagrius were banished by the emperor Valens, and their followers bitterly persecuted.

Valens, Holly, and Bopper take off in an airplane during a snowstorm for their fateful flight on February 3, 1959 ( the night that came to be known as " The Day the Music Died ").

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.

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.

He flourished in the reigns of Constantius II, Julian, Jovian, Valens, Gratian, and Theodosius I ; and he enjoyed the favour of all those emperors, notwithstanding their many differences, and the fact that he himself was not a Christian.

The theological complexion of both Synods was identical, at least in this, that the party of compromise, represented at Seleucia by Acacius and at Ariminum by Ursacius and Valens, was politically, though not numerically, in the ascendant and could exercise a subtle influence which depended almost as much on the argumentative ability of their leaders as on their curial prestige.

Their lead guitarist Bill Aken ( Adopted son of Mexican movie actress Lupe Mayorga, said adoption making Aken the cousin to Ritchie Valens ) wrote most of their original material, including the raucous " Donde-Donde ," and co-wrote the material for their " Sounds Of The Barrio " album that is still being sold by various Internet web sites.

The formulas for the Hermetic lots later made their way into the Medieval astrological tradition where they appear in authors such as Abu Ma ' shar and Guido Bonatti, although their lists have been combined with an alternate lot tradition derived from the 2nd century astrologer Vettius Valens.

Basil persuaded Constantius to summon a general council, Ancyra being proposed, then Nicomedia ( both in Asia Minor ), but as the latter city was destroyed by an earthquake, Basil was again at Sirmium in 359 where the Arianizers had meanwhile regained their footing ; with Germinius of Sirmium, George of Alexandria, Ursacius and Valens, and bishop ( later saint ) Marcus of Arethusa, he held a conference which lasted until night.