Timeline (Seven Roman States)

Date Timeline for the Althist Seven Roman States.

200s-300's: The declining Roman Empire

 * 285 A.D.--Under Diocletian, the political division of the Roman Empire begins when he divides the Roman Empire in half, appointing Maximian as Western Roman emperor.


 * 293 A.D.--The Roman Empire is again divided, this time experimentally into four. Galerius and Constantius Chlorus were appointed as their subordinates (Caesars), creating the First Tetrarchy.


 * 312 A.D.--Constantine the Great ends division of the Western Roman Empire by defeating the usurper Maxentius.


 * 313 A.D.--Point of Divergence: Maximinus, Caesar of the Syria and Egypt, invades the Greek portion of the Eastern Roman Empire, which is under the administration of Licinius. Licinius defeats Maximinus at the Battle of Tzirallum, but does not pursue the retreating enemy forces into the Asiatic provinces. Thus, this leaves a solid Western Roman Empire and a divided Eastern one.


 * 323 A.D.-- Licinius crushes an invasion by Constantine at Byzantium in a great naval battle. This forces the Western emperor to withdraw, and the East remains evenly divided.


 * 337 A.D.--Constantine dies in the Western Roman Empire. His son Flavius Julius Constantius seizes power by having the rest of his father's family brutally murdered.


 * 361 A.D.--Julian takes power as emperor of the Western empire.


 * 370 A.D.--Julian is murdered in Rome by his own soldiers.


 * 376 A.D.--The Visigoths arrive on the borders of the Empire of Licinius (known as the Empire of Pannonia). They demand to be settled, and when the Pannonian emperor, Licinius II, refuses, they ravage the Balkans. The aged emperor is subsequently killed at the Battle of Adrianople.