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| 330 |
| | | Constantine's new Christian city on the site of Byzantium is inaugurated, as Constantinople | |
|  | Constantinople, city walls
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| c. 360 |
| | | The Christian missionary Ulfilas devises an alphabet for the language of the Goths, so that he can translate the Bible into Gothic | |
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| 360 |
| | | The first church of Santa Sophia in Constantinople, begun by Constantine himself, is completed | |
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| 361 |
| | | Julian, the new emperor in Constantinople, plans to reinstate the pagan cult of the ancient Roman empire | |
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| c. 370 |
| | | The Huns, moving from the steppes north of the Black Sea, defeat the Ostrogoths and drive the Visigoths westwards - starting a chain reaction | |
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| 378 |
| | | The Visigoths inflict a devastating defeat on a Roman army at Adrianople, and win for themselves the status of Roman federates | |
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| 379 |
| | | Theodosius becomes the Roman emperor and revives Constantine's close link between church and state | |
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| 445 |
| | | Attila murders his brother and becomes the sole ruler of the Huns, who are now pressing through Dacia and across the Danube | |
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| 518 |
| | | The Slavs cross the Danube and press southwards into the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thracia | |
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| 525 |
| | | The law is changed to allow Justinian, of senatorial rank, to marry Theodora — whom courtesy describes as an actress | |
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