Nova Aetas Timeline(Still in Construction)

Aurelian Dynasty/Altera Romana Pacem
262-389

Emperor Aurelian
Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Aurelianus Augustus Restitutor Orbis dies in 280 CE. After ending the crisis of the third century about 15 years earlier. Beginning of the Nova Pace.

Emperor Marcus Aurelius II
==== Marcus Caesennius Aurelius, also known as Marcus Aurelius II, was adopted by Aurelian and becomes Emperor in 282 CE, and died in 308 Emperor Maximus ====

==== Gaius Aurelius Maximus, was adopted by Marcus Aurelius II, became emperor in 308, and died in 314. Emperor Agricola ==== Gnaeus Aurelius Agricola, adopted by Maximus, became emperor in 314 and died in 321.

Emperor Marcus Aurelius III
Marcus Antoninus Aurelius III, Adopted son of Agricola, became emperor in 321 and died in 340

Emperor Antoninus
Gaius Antoninus Aurelius, Son of Aurelius III, became emperor in 340 died in 352

Emperor Romulus Antonius
Romulus Aurelius Antonius, Nephew of Antonius, became emperor in 352 and died in 359. Was assassinated and had no heir ending the Nova Pace with the start of the Bellum Civili.

Bellum Civili
Marcus Valerius Maxentius, also known as Maxentius the Apostate, and Flavius Claudius Julianus also know as Julian the Greek, who was backed by the Church, both claim the imperial thrones and the Senate contests that it has the right to elect the emperor. Julian Ultimately won the war.

Pontificate
374-476

In this period of time the Empire is dominated by the church, and set the stage for the crisis of the fifth century.

Emperor Julian the Greek
Flavius Claudius Julianus, also known as Julian the Greek, from 374-404.

(Map of Empire at the outset of Julian's Reign)

In 376 thousands of Goths flee south seeking refuge in the Roman Empire, fleeing from a new enemy, the Huns, this is the start of what would become known as the Crisis of the Twelfth Century. This emerging crisis was only furthered by the emergence of the Second Palmyrene Empire in 401, which once again seceded from the empire shortly followed by the Kingdom of Armenia. Julian moved to combat the new threat by the Palmyrans, but was defeated and captured at the massive defeat of the Battle of Raphia, in the year 404. He was killed in captivity later that year, and the Palmyrans conquered Egypt as a result.

Emperor Cleganus the Cruel
Publius Cornelius Cleganus, was placed as emperor with papal backing in 404. He heavily supported persecution of pagans, with the support of the church, and his reign of terror earned him his nickname, "the cruel". However this ended up being his downfall as he was assassinated in 409, by pagans while on campaign in Cyrenica against Palmyra.

Emperor Constantine the Great
Tiberius Valerius Constantius, is considered the only good emperor of the Pontificate. The Pope placed him in power in 411, after a minor power struggle. He prevented the empire from complete collapse, by defeating the goths at the Battle of Nicopolis, in 415. He launched a war on Palmyra in 429 and managed to retake Egypt sadly he died in 432 of natural causes, his campaign unfinished.

Emperor Varronianus
Flavius Iovianus Varronianus

Appointed to Emperor by the Pope in 432, the most significant decision of his reign was to abandon Britannia. He died at the Battle of Pola in 438

Emperor Constans the Feeble
Flavius Iulius Constans was placed as emperor by the Pope in 439, after a year long period of infighting that further weakened  the Empire. He gained his nickname "the feeble" for his ill fought refusal and eventual submission to the Pope's decision to abandon most of Gaul and Hispania, in 440, which were straining under barbarian invasion and migration. The Roman abandonment of the region led to the establishment of several Roman and barbarian Kingdoms. Constans died in 453.

Emperor Constantine II
==== Flavius Claudius Constantinus, the son of Constantine I,  was placed as emperor in 453 and died in a plague in 457. He attempted a campaign against the Palmyrans, however failed and lost parts of Asia Minor. ====

Emperor Honorius
Flavius Honorius is placed on the throne in 457. He fails to stop the Vandal migration and conquest of most of northwest Africa. He died in 470.

Emperor Magnus
==== Flavius Magnus Maximus was placed on the throne by the pope in 470. His Gothic General Sarus, managed to prevent the capture of Carthage by the Vandals, and in 476 Sarus turned his armies around and marched on Rome, overthrowing Magnus and making himself Emperor in 476, ending the Pontificate. ====

Map of the Empire at the end of the Pontificate.

Tempora German Tyrannidem
476-494

In this period Rome is dominated by German-Roman Emperors. And ultimately led to the hastened development of more civilized Germans directly north of the Roman Empire in the form of the Kingdoms of Swabia and Bavaria

Virius Stilicho Sarus or Sarus the German
476-480

Emperor Ricemer the Aryan
Flavius Ricimer

480-482

A powerful, German, general who seized the throne after Sarus' death, he is the only ever Aryan Roman Emperor. And in 482 he famously massacred the pope along with the rest of the clergy in Rome, upon their attempts to install a ruler, as they had done previously. Ultimately this led to his downfall, and the Aryan Emperor was killed by a mob in Rome in 482.

Domitius Alarus
Though not technically an emperor, he deemed it necessary in the aftermath of the death of Richmer to have a non-German be on the throne so, Flavius Varian was placed as a puppet emperor onto the throne, with Alarus as the real man in power. He is unable to prevent the Ostrogoth flight and eventual conquest of a large portion of Thracia, after being pushed out of Dacia by both the Avars, and then later and more importantly the Magyars. At the end of his life, in 485, he designated Theodoric as his heir.

Emperor Theoderic
Before Theodericus was placed as the heir by Alarus he was the first to control all the tribes of southern Germania, uniting the Bavari, Alammani/Suebi(known as Swabian) tribes. After taking power in 485, he at first ruled as king in Germania and puppet master in Rome. However he ended this facade in 490, when he fully usurped the throne from Varian, declaring himself Emperor Theodosius of Rome and King of Germania. In his rule the cities of southern Germania grew and became more sophisticated in design and technology. However upon his death in 494 King Arnulf claimed the Swabian Throne and King Carloman claimed the Bavarian throne, the two kingdoms quickly fell into war.

Emperor Odoacerus Tyrannus
Flavius Odoacerus, a loyal subordinate of Theoderic, took power in Rome in 494 after his death. He saw himself at the rightful leader of not only the Roman Empire but also Bavaria and Swabia and led an army north to take these lands. After some victories in Germania against the other two kings, he began to plan for after his victory, planing to redraw the borders drastically expanding the size of Swabia and Bavaria at the expense of Roman territory. When the senate caught wind of this they demanded he returned to Rome, which, despite having no teeth behind it, led the new emperor to a simple decision. He left his large sum of German Levies and mercenaries to continue his campaign in Germania, and took his legions south to Rome to take out the senate once and for all. The city scrambled what loyal defenders it could find and prepared itself in the city. He besieged the city soon after only to be assassinated by his own men, who, as Romans, ultimately remained loyal to the city. The Senate took temporary power, ending the German Tyranny of the Empire.

Magnum Inter Regnum
494-497

In this time period the emperor more or less is a figurehead of the senate, which controls and elects the emperors. The Senate stabilizes the empire and removes Papal Influence, and in 497 the senate elects Gaius Julius Crispus to emperor

Altera Vincit
497-534

Emperor Julius
Gaius Julius Crispus, who later on changes his name to Gaius Julius Caesar, and the senate in 510 gives him the name, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus.