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0 to 499 AD

The Age of Madness

The year zero! The Romans were euphoric, they were now so rich, the streets of Rome ran with gold and they were well on the way to ruling the known world!

For the defeated peoples of Europe, Asia Minor, Judea, Egypt and the North African coast conquered by the Romans, everything they have ever known is gone forever. Probably all their People and family are gone too, and their land, their freedom and independence. It is truly difficult for us in the 21st century to have any idea what this time must have been like. Holocaust seems too pale a word for what these defeated people endured, or are shortly to endure. After all, Masada and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Roman conquest of Britain and Boudicca and the revolt of the Iceni and so much more is just about to happen. Rome was not finished with conquest and destruction. The list of their victims has dimmed with time, but their remains are still being dug up by archaeologists today.

No wonder a Messiah appears at this time. It must have felt like Ground Zero.

We do not know what people at the time truly felt or believed. We must not project modern emotions upon people from the past, but we do know something, from the Jewish people today and their culture which contains so much grief and colour, from the new Celticism and resurgence of paganism worldwide which Tolkein strove to return to us and the world wide appeal of The Lord of the Rings, a book Tolkein supposedly wrote to ‘give back to the British people that which was lost.’ These are all modern emotions.

However, there are some writings from the 6th century in Britain, from The Black Book of Camarthen, written by people themselves, though we only have later versions, when the Din Eidyn, or Dunadin of the last British kingdom fell to the Angles at the Battle of Catraeth in 638 AD. The Stanzas of the Graves, a long epic poem of many verses, each verse commemorating a fallen warrior.

“The graves which the rain wets,
men who had not been used to being provoked;
Cerwyd and Cywryd and Caw

The graves which the thicket covers,
they were not slain unavenged;
Gwrien, Morien and Morial.

The grave of Tydei, father of the muse,
is in the region of Bryn Aren;
where the wave makes a noise,
the grave of Dylan is at Llanfeuno.”

This poem has over 300 verses, and every fallen warrior is named. The poems are simple and ache with pain. In The Gododdin of Aneirin, the Tribal Bard Aneirin does not weep, he does not wail. He just records the names and remembers. There is no self pity.

Life continued under a different form from 0 AD, but the people do continue. The smashed remains of the conquered peoples pick themselves up and continue. They continue to fight. Rome will be gone by 412 AD and the people live on regardless. Their ultimate ‘disappearance’ owes more to the fact that historians call them different names all the time, hippies and punks are different cultural waves within peoples, not different peoples, but the result is the written genocide and eradication all those victims. However, this confusion will underlie everything from now on, contributing racism to the past, another modern emotion, not a feature of this time period. Another disappearing act perpetrated on the Celtic peoples is the myth that they ‘never wrote anything down’! There is ample evidence of Celtic writing, which makes this myth a lie. In fact it seems they wrote all the time and in many languages, for example, the many Tessera Hospitale and inscriptions located all over south west Europe, written in Celtiberian, Latin, Lepontic, Gaulish, Iberian, Lusitanian, Greek, Galatian and Noricum, Brythonic, Goidelic and with possible links to Basque. The Irish Lebor GabÃ¡la Ã‰renn provides ample evidence of the survival of Celtic writing dating back to at least 2400 BCE. Funny how so little has survived! I wonder what happened to it all?

People at this time were more interested in religious differences. The Romans believed their gods were stronger. They had already absorbed the conquered gods within their belief system, with some exceptions. Tribal people, who on the whole had the same gods, agreed with them. They simply added Roman god names to local god names and everyone went to the same shrines and temples without conflict. There were some gods which were not acceptable however. Isis, Serapis and Jehovah were difficult to absorb in Rome because their cult followers ran rampant or would not obey edicts or Roman laws. Over time, most were accepted, but not Christianity. The Romans could not accept monotheism which threatened the Imperial cult of the Emperor as a god, their version of one god who ruled over everyone else. This has never worked, as Akhenaten could have told them, but the Roman Emperor needed other gods - read countries - to rule over.

The Romans tried very hard to suppress monotheism because it was dangerous, and they were right. It was also a better idea to have one god who people could never meet or see, compared to Roman Emperors who are obviously mortal, and some of them were also obviously monsters, and all too easy to portray as the devil incarnate. Eventually, Christianity would sweep even Rome before it, though it would have to absorb tritheism, a central concept of Pagan belief before it did so. Christianity had already absorbed Pagan myth, Egyptian myth and Jewish myth, so it was a real contender to Roman myth which had already subsumed Greek and Pagan myth from all around the world.

The Romans and the Christians were both conglomerates of ancient beliefs and soon head to head in the battle for hearts and minds. Really, there is nothing new under the sun! Christianity and Islam would later refine this as the battle for souls which has been a reality in our world since the 7th century. The world takes the battles into human minds and so we become truly mad. The literal interpretation of the written word takes on a whole new meaning, and the destruction of manuscripts that contradict power elites, and the destruction of peoples who do not have written histories and instead have oral traditions which contradict the power elites, is almost complete by the end of this time period. Thank goodness for archaeology and the power of mythology!

1 AD Israel Jesus is born - there is some controversy over the exact date, of course
1 AD The planet Venus comes into alignment, predicting the birth of a Messiah
4 AD Israel Herod the Great dies in Judea
4 AD Rome recognises Cunobelin as king of Britain
5 AD Rome the Roman Emperor Augustus conquers The Balkans, Asia Minor, North Africa, Sardinia and Judea
9 AD Rome conquers Pannonia and all the people are enslaved
9 AD Germany Germanic Tribes under Arminius destroy three Roman legions in the Teutoberg Forest
17 AD Asia earthquake
17 AD Rome conquers the rebel Talfarinas in Africa
17 AD Rome campaigns in Germania
19 AD Rome Emperor Tiberius persecutes the Cults of Isis and Serapis
20 AD Rome appoints Herod Antipas as king of Judea
24 AD Israel John the Baptist preaching in Judea
26 AD Israel the Roman Pontius Pilate is Governor of Judea
30 AD Rome Emperor Tiberius outlaws the Druids
30 AD Rome list of Popes
32 AD Israel the Zealots revolt in Judea
33 AD Israel Jesus crucified in Judea
35 AD Gaul Joseph of Arimathea reputedly brings Mary Magdalene and her children to Gaul
36 AD Britain Joseph of Arimathea reputedly in Britain
37 AD Europe Matronae statues and inscriptions to the triple goddess appear
37 AD The Gospel of John reputedly written
38 AD Rome Emperor Caligula rebuilds the Temples of Isis and Serapis
39 AD Scotland Peter’s brother Andrew reputedly flees to Scotland to become the Patron Saint of Scotland
40 AD Rome conquers Mauretania
40 AD Anatolia Roman Citizen Paul of Tarsus traveling in Syria
43 AD North Africa Egypt the Coptic Church founded
43 AD Anatolia Paul of Tarsus traveling in Asia Minor
43 AD Rome conquers Britain list of Roman Emperors list of British tribes
43 AD Britain the Atrebates were pro Roman and contained Belgic aristocracy. Their tribal identity was the White Horse built about 1000 BCE and they minted coins showing the horse. list of Celtic coins. The Dubunni Tribe were also pro Roman. The Catuvellauni organised the main resistance to Rome under their Belgic leader Cunobelinus, a great king who rules for forty years, alongside the Catuvellauni and the Trinovantes Tribes who Cunobelinus’ father Tasciovanus previously annexed, displacing Addedomarus king of the Trinovantes for a short while. Displaced princes flee to Rome, as Dubnovellaunus does, when Eppillus and Tincomarus were made kings in his stead. Tincomarus also fees to Rome at some point. Eppillus and Tincomarus were both sons of Commius, an Belgic ally of Rome from the wars in Gaul. Verica is also a son of Commius, who is at war with Epaticcus, a brother of Cunobelinus, causing another flood of refugees to Rome, indeed Verica himself flees to Rome at some point. There was much interplay and politics engineered by Rome with and client kings set up prior to the invasion. Cunobelinus is acknowledged by treaty with Rome as a Britanorum Rex, or Great King. Cunobelin is also Cymbeline Pendragon list of Pendragons. When Cunobeinus died in 40 AD, his sons Caractacus and Togodumnus take up the fight with Rome.
44 AD Britain the British Tribe of the Silures holds out against Rome under their king Caractacus, son of Cunobelinus
44 AD Gaul Judean Joseph of Arimathea reputedly brings Jesus’ son Joseph to Gaul
45 AD Britain Joseph of Arimathea reputedly takes Jesus’ son James to Britain
46 AD Britain King Arviragus of the Silures Tribe makes a treaty with Roman Emperor Claudius and reputedly marries his daughter Genuissa, a great granddaughter of Emperor Augustus
47 AD Britain the Iceni tribe make a peace treaty with Emperor Claudius
50 AD Rome source Strabo
51 AD Britain Cartimandua queen of the Brigantes hands Caractacus over to the Romans
56 AD Japan the first official visit to Japan from China
58 AD Britain Linus, son of Caractacus made Bishop of Rome by Paul of Tarsus. NB: Catholics claim Linus is an Italian from Tuscany…
59 AD Britain the Druids in Britain forge a strong resistance to Rome, with constant comings and goings between Rome and Britain at this time. The Silurian Druid King Bran, who is reputedly married to Joseph of Arimathea’s daughter, and the British resistance leader Caractacus reputedly convert to Christianity whilst imprisoned in Rome. It would be quite natural for Druids, British Tribal resistance fighters and Christians to associate together in Rome, as they are the two main groups proscribed and persecuted by Rome at this time. There are many legends from this time regarding Joseph of Arimathea and the Silure Druids, but they are treated in the usual way by historians. This explains the Celtic Revival in the West today and the proliferation of novels written today about this time period. Undoubtedly there would have been many behind the scenes contacts between refugees from Roman persecutions and the British resistance who held out as a safe haven for a very long time, presumably with Irish and Scottish contacts. Claudius reputedly tried to send his son Britannicus behind Roman lines in Britain for safety, but he was killed by Nero. There is a very interesting unwritten history here, but this is not the place to write it… and it is why there is so much historical fiction written about this period. The reason why the Christians in Rome are so famous but no mention is made of their Druid allies is something that requires clarification and does not reflect well on modern Christianity. It is their deliberate absence in the histories that fascinates people so much. But then Christians leave quite a lot out of their writings…
60 AD Rome source Lucan. He writes a defamatory account of the ‘Celts’, well he would wouldn’t he! This has not stopped Christian historians using Lucan for centuries to character assassinate ‘Barbarians‘ as they defend their heroes, the Romans!
60 AD Britain the Roman Governer of Britain Gaius Suetonius Paulinus attacks the Druid Sanctuary on Anglesea, presumably where all those refugees from Rome are being shipped to Ireland from… Ptolemy describes four British tribes in eastern Ireland at this time, who could possibly have been British refugees from the Romans in Britian.
60 AD Britian Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe revolts against Rome
60 AD Parthia the Parthians revolt against Rome
62 AD Israel James the Just, brother of Jesus is killed in Judea
62 AD Britain Boudica burns Londinium to the ground, and a few other Roman cities too, just for good measure…
63AD Britain Boudica is vanquished and Rome retaliated with the genocide of the Iceni people, leaving Norfolk empty of population for centuries thereafter. The Snettisham Hoard is believed to have been buried by Boudica’s people before they set out on their war with Rome.
63 AD Gaul Joseph of Arimathea reputedly moves to Gaul, no doubt to get away from the war in Britain… However, he supposedly dedicates the first Church at Glastonbury before he leaves
64 AD Rome someone burns Rome to the ground, I wonder who…?
64 AD Rome Peter and Paul killed in Rome
64 AD Israel Christians revolt in Judea
64 AD Israel the Dead Sea Scrolls hidden at Qumran.
65 AD the Gospel of Mark written
65 AD Rome source Pliny the Elder
65 AD Israel Simon Zelotes reputedly leads refugees out of Judea to Mesopotamia
65 AD China the first Chinese reference to Buddhism
66 AD Halley’s Comet appears again. Astrologers everywhere would have read this as a sign of war. NB: historians record astrology as beginning in Babylon because they dug up the cuneiform tablets mentioning astrology there. This of course does not mean anything except this is the first ‘written’ record of astrology and does not give us any indication of where astrology was first devised, probably in the Stone Age for all we know… Beware of sloppy dating by academics!
67 AD Israel Vespasian destroys Qumran
67 AD Rome Vindex revolts against Emperor Nero in Rome
68 AD Britain Druid revival in Britain
68 AD Gaul revolt against Rome. ?Joseph of Arimathea acting as resistance coordinator with British and Gaulish rebels against Rome?
69 AD Rome list of emperors
69 AD Britain Marcus Trebellius Maximus defeats rebellion in Roman army in Britain as Roman ally Cartimandua is driven out for betraying Caractacus
70 AD Israel Jewish revolt in Judea. The Romans kill an estimated 1.3 million souls. Well they were very good at killing! Marvelous people! They destroy the Temple of Jerusalem. There is a mass exodus of Jews to Mesopotamia, Syria and Asia Minor
73 AD Israel Masada destroyed by Rome
75 AD Rome returns to destroy Anglesea. Boudica interrupted them in 60 AD after all. Agricola has special orders regarding the Druids to ‘destroy them all‘… They of course, move to Ireland and Scotland, or simply disappear elsewhere…
76 AD Britain Rome destroys the Ordovices in Wales
79 AD Italy Vesuvius erupts in Italy
80 AD the Gospel of Luke written
80 AD Kashmir Jewish Yusuf Asar reputedly dies in Kashmir where his tomb is still revered
82 AD Britain Roman Agricola attacks Ireland but does not stay
83 AD Britain Agricola destroys Mons Graupius, the final enclave of Druids in Roman Britain
85 AD the Gospel of Matthew written
90 AD the Book of Revelation is written
96 AD Rome list of Emperors
100 AD Rome appropriates everything unto her, including all the indigenous gods and goddesses and religions, by naming them as Roman, she incorporates them along with their peoples
100 AD Britain the Silures are still revolting in Wales and Rome considers exterminating them, but they are related to Augustus’s family (see 46 AD) and so an accommodation is made instead and Rome recruits them into the Legions
100 AD Rome Christian and Jewish Catacombs are excavated under the city for the storage of the dead. The early Christians copy the Jewish practice of excarnation, whereby the dead are left for a year to decompose and then their bones are gathered up to await Judgement Day. These bones will all be stolen in the centuries to come, mostly for sale to the Relic Trade in the early middle ages, when such things could be profitably traded.
100 AD Rome source Pliny the Younger
100 AD Rome source Tacitus
100 AD Yemen the kingdom of Aksum resurges in the Yemen
100 AD Rome source Seutonius
100 AD Rome source Jewish Josephus
100 AD Peru the Moche Culture rises in Peru
102 AD Gaul the rebellion of the Gauls is finally defeated at Aix en Provence but the Gauls continue to win battles against the Romans
103 AD Rome withdraws from Scotland ?in defeat
105 AD Rome conquers the Nabataean kingdom in Arabia
106 AD Rome conquers the Dacians with the help of British ?Silurian legions
115 AD Rome conquers Mesopotamia
117 AD Rome conquers Syria
117 AD Rome conquers Moesia
118 AD Rome still fighting the Brigantes in Britain
119 AD Rome controls Transylvania
122 AD Britain Emperor Hadrian orders Hadrian’s Wall built
122 AD Roman Lucius, Praefector of Rome may be basis of Arthurian myth?
130 AD Britain the Classis Britannica, the navy of Rome, is reinforced with ships from Iberia
132 AD Israel Emperor Hadrian conquers Judea again after the Bar Kochba rebellion. Another 500,000 people are slaughtered, and some survivors reputedly take refuge in Gaul. More scrolls, the Enoch texts, are added to the cache in Qumran
138 AD Britain Hadrians Wall is abandoned as the Romans push north to campaign in Scotland against the Picts. The Antonine Wall is built
150 AD Rome source Fronto
150 AD Rome source Marcion - his attempt at an early Canon for Christianity was rejected by the early church by Tertullian because of his concept of two gods, one good and one bad, and his rejection of all things Jewish, led to the proscription of Marcionism and the recognition by the church that a New Testament Canon was required
154 AD Britain the Brigantes revolt and drive the Romans back to Hadrians Wall
162 AD Rome conquers Armenia
165 AD Rome Plague in Rome brought by troops returning from the east
167 AD Germania Rome suffers constant threats from Germania across the Rhine. Rome never conquers Germania. Emperor Marcus Aurelius is based permanently in the German frontier
176 AD Rome plague in Rome
181 AD Britain the Great Rebellion in Britain as Hadrians Wall is invaded. Rome defeats the invaders and mints victory coins to mark the occasion. Clodius becomes usurper Emperor in Britain and Gaul for a short time. He is one of the countless usurper Roman Emperors from this time on.
189 AD Germania Emperor Commodus gains a peace of sorts with Germania by treaty. Rome never conquers Germania and the peoples beyond
193 AD Rome list of Emperors
197 AD Britain Usurper Clodius is defeated and Rome splits Britain into two provinces and withdraws most of the legions
200 AD Britain the Picts or Caledonni and Brigantes rebel across Hadrian’s Wall again, which is hastily rebuilt
200 AD Britain the Franks and Saxons raid Southern Britain. Temples in Holland fall into the sea as the climate changes. The Classis Britannica navy in action against Saxon pirates
200 AD China the Silk Road to China reopens
200 AD Greece source Athenaeus
200 AD Rome source Cassius Dio
200 AD Gaul Irenaeus of Lyon begins the dispute with the Jews over Christianity which will become so bloody over the centuries when the Nazarenes denounced Paul
202 AD Gaul Roman persecutions of Christians in Gaul. Iranaeus is killed with many others, and survivors reputedly flee to Glastonbury
208 AD Rome Marcionism proscribed again by early Christian Church leader Tertullian
208 AD Rome Tertullian is the origin of the Inquisition and all it turns into and Blasphemy is proscribed
208 AD Rome Montanism proscribed
208 AD Rome Excommunication adopted by the Christian Church - an ancient practice with precedents from all over the Ancient World
211 AD Rome Emperor Caracalla makes everyone in the Empire a Roman citizen
220 AD Central Asia the Xinjiang Culture emerges
224 AD Britain the Druids are still active and campaigning against Rome
226 AD Britain the Saxon Shore Forts built along the Southern British coast
230 AD Rome source Hippolytus
230 AD Rome source Herodian
230 AD Rome source Tertullian
235 AD Rome crisis of third century
238 AD Britain the Druids are still agitating and prophesying against Rome
239 AD Numidia the Numidians rebel against Rome
250 AD Japan the Yayoi Culture fades
250 AD Rome source Emperor Aurelian
250 AD Rome source Origen
250 AD Rome list of Popes
262 AD North Africa Egypt Earthquake in Alexandria
264 AD Rome in chaos with 20 usurper emperors and 55 real Emperors in 50 years across the Empire. Rome is beset with inflation and instability. The Roman army is almost entirely made up of Barbarians. Slaves become too expensive as the coinage debases and then collapses, and the peasants revolt. Britain, Gaul and Iberia secede from Rome and ally with Germany to become the Gallic Empire
265 AD China Chinese Han Dynastic period ends and a series of dynasties follow until the Tang Dynasty emerges (see 618 AD)
285 AD Rome Tetrarchy where the Empire is split under the leadership of four Emperors
286 AD Britain Usurper Carausius campaigning. Carausius was a member of the Belgic Germanic Menapii tribe and held the position of Classis Britannica in the Roman Navy. At this time, the Roman army in Britain was heavily Germanisied and Carausius was accused by Bede of letting Saxons and Franks ‘infest’ southern Britain and the British coast. This may have been how Carausius managed his usurpation and indicates a Germanic ascendency in Britain at this time. Was England already Germanic speaking at this time? Carausius is credited with the building of the Saxon Shore forts, a name they acquired in the 5th century in the Roman document Notitia Dignitatum and listed as under the control of the Count of the Saxon Shore. Does this imply the British coast was already settled by Saxons? The Germanic Belgae and Atrebates tribes arrived in Britain long before Caesar arrived in 54 BCE so it is possible that southern England had been Germanic for a very long time, indeed the whole west coast of Britain was colonised by people coming up the Rhine and crossing the North Sea before it flooded in the Mesolithic, with substantial migration during the Neolithic. Would the peoples of southern Britian always spoken Germanic languages? Has England been Germanic since the ice caps retreated? This coastline was the busiest trading centre of Britain during the Roman Empire and represents a quarter of the coast line and the other side of the Channel was populated almost entirely by Germanic speaking peoples. The Celtic speaking peoples live on the western side of the islands and their cultural influences come up the Atlantic sea routes from the Celtic havens of south east Europe. Our history books may have to be rewritten once all the genetic data is completed, especially as Scandanavian seems to be the oldest and clearest infiltrator of old English from very early times, and influence which would have come from the northern sea routes to Scotland, again from very early times! Or would it have come from the fact that the ‘Saxons’ originally came from Scandinavia themselves? Source Gesta Danorum and Beowulf and archaeological evidence from the Sutton Hoo burial of King Raedwald (?) which is rich in Scandanavian artefacts
293 AD Rome Emperor Diocletian reunifies the Roman Empire and divides the Empire into East and West with a Tetrarchy. Diocletian undertakes a mass persecution of rebels, and he also expels them from the Legions. Usurper emperors are in place across the Empire as territories attempt to break away from Rome
300 AD Rome The Catholic Church adopts the pagan symbol of the Latin Cross
300 AD Japan the Yamataikoku Culture emerges
300 AD Rome Arius begins the Arian Heresy with the Roman Church
300 AD Rome Ebionites proscribed
300 AD Rome Gospel of Mary proscribed
300 AD Rome Gospel of Philip proscribed
300 AD Rome Gospel of Peter proscribed
300 AD Rome Gospel of Thomas proscribed
300 AD Rome Shepherd of Hermas proscribed
300 AD Rome Apocalypse of Stephen proscribed
300 AD Rome full list of Apocrypha proscibed
300 AD Rome source Eusebius
300 AD Rome source Athanasius
305 AD Rome Donatist Churches appear as a reaction to apostates under pagan Emperor Diocletian and they never forgive the apostates and begin to think of the Emperor, any Emperor, as the Devil. The Donatists carry this on for far too long, and together with the writings of Tertullian the Inquisition comes nearer
306 AD Rome Emperor Constantine the Great reigns alongside Diocletian to reunify the Roman Empire
310 AD Rome Constantine bans the cult of Mary the Gypsy in Gaul, believed to be the cult of Mary Magdelene. Constantine and Diocletian carry out numerous persecutions for heresy from 303 AD to 325 AD - against Christians, or against heretical Christianity? These include the Donatist Heresy, the Gnostic Heresy, Manichaeism, - all of which the Roman Church proscribes as well! Diocletian is always blamed for persecuting Christians, and it is interesting that Constantine is always absent from any censure from the Church, who claim he was a Christian but there is adequate proof that he was a pagan all his life. These dual Emperors struggle to bring the Roman Empire back under control. The Druids are still active amongst the Gallic Empire, a huge threat to both Diocletian and Constantine. Christians in North Africa, and in all the breakaway kingdoms may have been involved in some way, as these two groups were closely allied in the first two centuries. However, the subsequent censure of both groups under Diocletian and Constantine may indicate that they were both regarded equally as enemies of the Roman Empire, which does imply there were in the same camp. That the later Roman Church misinterpreted a few historical facts to make sure they came out intact and victorious in 410 AD when the Roman Empire did eventually collapse is no surprise. The Roman Church mangled a few facts and threw their old allies to the wolves, even defamed them and wrote them out of history, in order to grab power. This ‘ingenuity’ will continue through the centuries, for example the Roman Church forged the Donation of Constantine in 752 AD to consolidate and justify their power base and re wrote the history of Francia to obscure the murder of Dagobert II in 742 AD and the subsequent debacle that followed. What else did they do…? Historians in subsequent centuries aided and abetted this confusion of the facts by not pointing out the great chaos in the Rome Empire before Diocletian and Constantine, not mentioning the two Emperors in the same breath, and continuing the mirage because they were after all, Christian historians!
312 AD Rome Diocletian died and Constantine the Great becomes the Sole Emperor of Rome. The 25th December, the old Pagan Winter Solstice is officially taken over as the birthday of Christ - a wise move because this has been the main winter celebration since Neolithic times, and it is also the Holy day of numerous Pagan gods anyway - and Constantine proclaims in the Edict of Milan that the Roman Empire should be neutral to religious faith, probably a much needed move to establish peace at such a time. The Church portrays this as legitimising Christianity, which it does, but it also legitimates Pagan belief too, a fact they have suppressed. Constantine also separates civil life from military life, but Constantine retains his own divine nature as an Imperial Emperor supported by the one Christian god at the Council of Arles. He also bans education to prevent further heresies breaking out. Constantine eventually squares the Akhenaton circle and he takes on all the Imperial trappings! The pre-eminence of Rome over Jerusalem is acknowledged, outraging ‘real’ Christians or Nazarenes, and Constantine undertakes sporadic persecutions of ‘Nazarene Christians’ until 324 AD, but we won’t mention this and neither will the Roman Church! Easter is also included in the Roman Church around this time, another Pagan festival from Neolithic times which falls at the Spring equinox, now claimed as the date for Jesus’ crucifixion
312 AD Rome source Historia Augusta
313 AD Korea Korea gains partial independence from China
320 AD Rome Constantine bans education in the Roman Empire again to stop the spread of heresies!
324 AD Rome Constantine defeats the Eastern Emperor Licinius and becomes sole Augustus and he founds Constantinople for his new Imperial capital city
324 AD Rome Christians attack pagan temples
325 AD Rome Constantine convened the Council of Nicea to proscribe the Arian Heresy and to determine the correct date for Easter, a pagan and Jewish festival most probably also dating from the Neolithic age, which fell on the spring equinox. The pagan spring goddess ceremonies concerned the celebration of passion and the release of life - the reason why Easter was specifically chosen for Christ’s passion and resurrection. The Roman Empire was a cauldron of belief at the time and many were cobbled together to make the new religion, mostly because by absorbing them, they could win followers and claim an ancient background for Christianity. Astarte under her many different names is a prime contender for Easter, with her ancient Egyptian and proto Indo European base. Constantine protested that Jesus was not the Messiah because Constantine was! He roundly condemned the Nazarenes for their support of a false prophet (Jesus)! Constantine based his claim to be the Messiah on his mother Helena who claimed ancestry from Joseph of Arimathea through the marriage of Joseph’s daughter to British Druid king Bran of the Silures, one of her ancestors (see 59 AD). (This would all have seemed like historical gobbledegook if it wasn’t for Dan Brown’s The Davinci Code, but now it all makes a kind of sense!) Arius himself got very hot under the collar at this point but he got punched in the face and banished. Constantine went onto proclaim the Trinity, another pagan belief as seen in Isis, Osiris and their son Horus and the triple goddess statues from the Indo European peoples, and then Constantine declared that only the Trinity and himself were to be worshiped and that was that! The establishment of the Nicene Creed established a precedent for subsequent general councils to create a statement of belief and canons which were intended to become guidelines for doctrinal orthodoxy and a source of unity for the whole of Christendom - a momentous event in the history of the Church and subsequent history of Europe
337 AD Rome list of Emperors
343 AD Rome the Council of Sardica further refined the proscription of the Arian Heresy
348 AD Rome the Council of Carthage proscribes the Donatist Heresy
350 AD Rome Syrian John Chrysostum preaches that the old pagan philosophy is destroyed
350 AD Japan the Kofun Culture emerges
350 AD Britain Usurper Magnentius rebels in Britain
350 AD Africa Kush invaded by Ethopian Aksum
350 AD Rome Emperor Julian is pagan - an attempt to save the Roman Empire. He is the sole survivor of Constantine’s family (who murdered everyone else). Julian campaigns widely but the Empire is in chaos, in Gaul, in Persia, in Rome, in Britain…
350 AD Rome the Council of Sirmium an attempt for a truce between Arianism and the Roman Church by Constantius II who is sympathetic - but it is all too late
350 AD North Africa Egypt Bishop Athanasius assembles the New Testament in Alexandria
350 AD Britain the Mildenhall Hoard was buried in Britain, as were many others, a sign of trouble in the land
352 AD Rome coinage collapses plunging the Empire into chaos again
353 AD Gaul Paulinus is sent to punish the supporters of Magnentius and he evicts them from their estates, and archaeologists record many British villas destroyed by fire at this time
355 AD Rome Bishop Athanasius proscribed at the Council of Milan
358 AD Gaul the Franks establish a kingdom in Northern Gaul
360 AD Britain Saxons, Scots, Picts and Irish revolt against Rome in Britain and Hadrian’s Wall is abandoned - it is overun!
362 AD Balkans The Goths rebel in Bosnia
363 AD Rome Serbian Emperor Jovian was uneducated and surrounded constantly by Germanic mercenaries which upset the Italians who were overly concerned with the correct behavior of Emperors and found themselves very upset by Barbarian manners. Panegyrics, a form of ritual praise poetry, becomes vitally important as Emperors are seen as the Law itself, and as the Trinity incarnate and as god’s regent of earth, and they are surrounded with ritual and pomp which are the precursors of the full Church pageantry to come
364 AD Rome list of Emperors
365 AD Egypt Earthquake destroys Alexandria
366 AD Britain in revolt due to invasions by Picts, Scots, Saxons and Attacotti. The Roman Dux Bellorum and the Count of the Saxon Shore are both killed and the army collapses due to desertion. Emperor Theodosius offers them amnesty and settles the Saxons in Southern Britain and begins rebuilding programme. He reorganises Britain administratively and regains control of Gaul
368 AD Gaul Emperor Valentinian I campaigns in Gaul
369 AD Rome Alamans, Saxons and Sarmatians revolt in Rome
369 AD Balkans Fritigern king of the Visigoths is elected by Tribal Council list of Visigoth kings
370 AD Balkans Goth Ulfilias preaches Christianity to the Visigoths and they all decide to become Arian Heretics along with the Vandals, the Lombards, the Burgundians, all of Spain, Southern France, Constantinople and Germania
372 AD Rome Manichaenism proscribed
376 AD Balkans Emperor Valens destabilises the local populations and disrupts the Goths in the Balkans who were the damn blocking tribal migration, thus drawing the Huns into Europe proper. The Huns have been driven out of Eurasia by the Han Dynasty. The Romans humiliate the Goths, enslaving and starving them in concentration camps and ultimately drawing them into Roman territory (beware of people claiming the British concentration camps in South Africa are the ‘first in history’). Eventually, the Goths turn on Valens and kill him, causing most of the Roman army to collapse. It is the worst defeat the Romans have suffered in over 400 years. The Goths travel on to Rome itself, where they become Roman mercenaries
378 AD Gaul source Druid Ausonius Roman Consul and Prefect of Gaul describes his Tribal Druid origins and how his Druid grandfather was involved in the Aedui rebellion against Rome, and he writes about the Sanctuaries to Belinus across Southern Gaul, Northern Italy and Austria.
379 AD Ireland Niall high king of Ireland Irish mythology
380 AD Rome source Ammianus
380 AD Gaul Martin Bishop of Tours promotes Monasticism
380 AD Britain Coel Hengodbera king in Rheged. This is one of the British kings of that name thought to be mentioned in the rhyme Old King Cole
380 AD Rome source Consul Ausonias boasting again about his Druidic ancestry, a caste that is passed from father to son by his account
380 AD Gaul source Martin of Tours
381 AD Greece Theodosius I massacres the people of Thessalonica
381 AD Rome Spanish Emperor Theodosius I makes Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire with the Edict of Thessalonica
383 AD Spain Spanish Usurper Magnus Maximus declares himself Emperor of the West and makes a treaty with the Goths and he withdraws all the Legions from Britain after he defeats the

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