World Timeline

[Wilkshire]

AD 362: The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 363: Mar Mattai Monastery is founded on Mount Alfaf.

 

[Picairn]

AD 364: Emperor Jovian died under mysterious circumstances (suspected of dying by inhaling poisonous fumes), Valentinian I was proclaimed Emperor by Roman officers in Nicaea. His brother, Valens, was made co-emperor.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 365: March 30 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Feidi, age 23, succeeds his brother Jin Aidi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He has no actual power; governmental matters are largely in the hands of his granduncle Sima Yu.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 366: Emperor Valentinian I appoints Jovinus, his Master of the Horse (Magister Equitum), general of the army. He defeats the Alamanni in three successive battles, and pushes them out of Gaul.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 367: The first Listing of the New Testament (Bible) is made by St. Athanasius of Alexandria.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 368: An earthquake strikes Nicaea (modern Turkey).

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 369: Spring – Emperor Valens crosses the Danube, and attacks the Gothic tribes (Greuthungi and Tervingi). Valens and Athanaric, the Gothic king, eventually sign a treaty.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 370: A law of Valentinian I and Valens bans marriages between Romans and barbarians under penalty of death.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 371: Roman poet Ausonius writes of a voyage on the Rhine and the Moselle, in his work 'Mosella'.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 372: The first diplomatic ties are established between the Korean kingdom of Baekje and the Chinese court of the Jin Dynasty.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 373: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes proconsul of Africa, and is made a member of the pontifical college.