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Tetrarchy
- Constantine II (emperor)A young boy named Constantine arrived in the city of Arles during the year 316. He was the second son born to Emperor Constantine I and his wife Fausta.
- LiciniusValerius Licinianus Licinius emerged from a Dacian peasant family in Moesia Superior around the year 265. His early life remained obscure until he joined his…
- Constantius ChlorusFlavius Valerius Constantius entered the world on the 31st of March, though historians cannot name his birth year. His career and the age of his eldest son…
- Constantine the GreatOn the 27th of February 272, a boy named Constantine was born inside the city of Naissus. This settlement sat within Dardania, part of the province Moesia…
- Civil wars of the TetrarchyRoman emperor Diocletian instituted the Tetrarchy in 293 AD to end the Crisis of the Third Century. This administrative division split imperial power between…
- DiocletianIn the year 284, an army gathered on a hill outside Nicomedia to choose their new leader. The soldiers had just discovered that Emperor Numerian was dead…
- GaleriusGalerius Valerius Maximianus arrived in the world between 258 and 260 within the Danube provinces. Ancient texts place his birth either near Serdica or at a…
- MaximianMaximian was born around the year 250 near Sirmium in the province of Pannonia. His family owned a shop, and he grew up along the war-torn Danube frontier.
- MaxentiusMarcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius entered the world in 283 as the son of Emperor Maximian and his Syrian wife Eutropia.
- TetrarchyRoman emperor Diocletian instituted a new system of governance in the late third century to address severe military and administrative crises.