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5 giorni fa · Almost a century later, in 305, Constantius Chlorus died in the city and Constantine was acclaimed there as his successor. Both Severus and Constantius Chlorus were using York as a base for military expeditions and it was as the strategic centre of Roman Britain that the fortress was most important.
4 giorni fa · Constantine I [g] (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
4 giorni fa · A.D. 260–311), in his Panegyric to the Caesar Constantius Chlorus, describes how, in the year 296, Constantius sailed from Boulogne under adverse weather conditions to recover Britain from the hands of the usurper Allectus. He proceeds:—
4 giorni fa · The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [1] .
4 giorni fa · On the death of Constantius Chlorus, his son, Constantine the Great, was proclaimed emperor at York. A fine head from a greater than life-size statue of this emperor is now in the Yorkshire Museum: it perhaps stood in front of the headquarters building (see plate facing p. 332).
Nepotianus , the grandson of Emperor Constantius Chlorus, usurps the throne, proclaims himself emperor on this date in 350 AD, entering Rome with a band of gladiators, and ruled for 28 days before being killed by his rival usurper Magnentius' general Marcellinus.
1 giorno fa · Now available on the Spink website, the long awaited 2nd edition of LMCC. Hardback, jacketed, 297 x 210mm, 360 pages, £75. This new edition of LMCC remains the comprehensive catalogue and survey of the coinage of the London mint from AD 296, when Constantius I recaptured Britain from the usurper,...
