settlement in Thrace and Moesia.

383. Rebellion of Maximus in Britain; he lands in Gaul, where he is
joined by the forces there; he overthrows Gratian.

387. Maximus invades Italy. Valentinian flees with his mother and
sister, Galla, to Thessalonica; Theodosius meets them, marries Galla,
and prepares to meet Maximus.

388. Maximus is defeated and slain.

A formal vote of the senate establishes Christianity in the Roman
Empire.

389. Theodosius visits Rome; he commands the destruction of the heathen
temples. Valentinian becomes sole ruler of the West.

390. Sedition at Thessalonica, and massacre of its inhabitants, by order
of Theodosius.

392. Paganism in the Roman Empire is finally suppressed by law.

Murder of Valentinian II by Arbogast; Eugenius usurps the throne in the
West.

394. Eugenius and Arbogast are vanquished by Theodosius the Great, who
unites the whole Roman Empire under his sceptre.

395. Death of Theodosius the Great; final division of the Empire. See
"FINAL DIVISION OF ROMAN EMPIRE," iii, 364.

399. The Ostrogoths, under Tribigild, revolt and ravage Phrygia.

Stilicho sends additional forces into Britain, and fortifies the coast
against the Saxons.

402. Alaric advances in Italy, and Stilicho prepares to resist him.

403. Honorius, on the approach of Alaric, flees from Milan.

Alaric, King of the Visigoths, encounters Stilicho, Honorius' general,
at Pollentia; the Romans claim the victory, but Alaric continues his
advance toward Rome. Stilicho defeats and drives him back, near Verona;
Alaric retires from Italy.*

404. Triumph of Honorius and Stilicho at Rome. Combats of gladiators
exhibited for the last time.

The capital of the Western Empire is removed from Rome to Ravenna.*

Chrysostom, the patriarch, is banished Constantinople; the Church of St.
Sophia, probably kindled by the angry adherents of Chrysostom, burned to
the ground.

405. Radagaisus collects a great horde of Ostrogoths, Vandals, Suevi,
and other Barbarians, and leads them into Italy. He is defeated by
Stilicho near Florence, and surrenders on condition of having his life
spared. He is, however, treacherously put to death.

St. Jerome completes his Latin translation of the Bible.*

406. German tribes break down the Rhine barrier and establish themselves
in Gaul.

Vigilantius, a presbyter of Barcelona, condemns celibacy, the worship of
relics, etc.; St. Jerome attacks him in a furious epistle, saying that
he