Fantasy Earth Timeline

==300s==
===312===
*Constantine is struck by lightning at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, and dies, leading to the surrender of his army. Maxentius I dedicates a new Temple to Iupiter Optimus Maximus, with the main statue of the god standing over the spot where Constantine fell.
===313===
*Maximinus II is defeated by Licinius, committing suicide to avoid capture.
===316===
*Licinius grows mysteriously ill, dying after three days of delirium. Maxentius I becomes sole Emperor, but appoints his younger son, Maximian, as Caesar.
===345===
*Maxentius I dies of fever. Maximian II becomes Emperor, appointing his eldest son, Claudius, as Caesar Occidens, and his second son, Valerius, as Caesar Oriens. Maximian II will split his time between the two capitols of Rome and Byzantium, as much due to his love of sailing, as out of a desire to govern well.
===347===
*Claudius dies while out hunting. His younger brother, Gaius Severus, becomes Caesar Occidens.
===349===
*Valerius orders an expansion of the Library of Alexandria, which is growing crowded with the vast numbers of scrolls it contains. He also orders that the Library be copied, and these copies be placed in the newly-endowed Library of the Imperial Musaeon in Byzantium. From these and similar acts, he will be known as Valerius Scolarem (Valerius the Scholar).
===351===
*Maximian II drowns at sea, during a storm. Valerius becomes Emperor, but believes the Empire is too large for a single Emperor to govern. Thus, he declares his brother Gaius Severus as Western Emperor (Augustus Occidens) and himself as Eastern Emperor (Augustus Oriens). Gaius does not appoint a Caesar, due to disagreements with his son, Maxentius.
===352===
*Emperor Gaius Severus, a widower, is seduced by the ambitious widow Narcissa Juliana (despite rumours that she poisoned her first husband), and adopts her son Lucius as his own.
===359===
*Gaius Severus dies of a mysterious illness - though many claim he was poisoned by his wife, in order to install her son as Emperor, ahead of Maxentius (which she proceeds to do). This would be far more difficult, had Gaius not been so resistant to selecting a Caesar, or had Narcissa not slept with three of the most influential members of the Praetorian Guard, and several important senators.
===360===
*Maxentius, currently a Dux over three legions in Germania Inferior, facing more goblins and orcs than human Germanians, learns of his father's death. It takes little time for him to decide to take his legions south to Rome, to press his claim on the imperial seat. He survives two assassination attempts from spies loyal to Narcissa.
===361===
*Emperor Maxentius II fights several battle in Italia, finally seeing the death of Emperor Lucius at the Battle of Ravenna. Narcissa, learning of this, commits suicide. He is greeted with joy both false and true when he enters Rome. One of his first official acts is to dissolve the Praetorian Guard. At the 'invitation' of the Senate (though many know he ordered the Senate to do this), he names his eldest son, Marcus, as Caesar.
===363===
*In Byzantium, Valerius the Scholar breathes his last, and is succeeded by his son and Caesar, Antonius. The childless Antonius in turn appoints his nephew Honorius as Caesar.
===365===
*Caesar Marcus marries Flavia Maximina Helena, a daughter of the powerful Flavian gens.
===369===
*Claudius Seneca iunior born, in Ravenna. His father, Claudius Seneca maior, is a popular senator, and a friend of Caesar Marcus.
===3??===
*Maxentius II dies. Marcus becomes Emperor of the West.
===3??===
*Western Emperor Marcus assassinated by conspiracy lead by Seneca maior, who also dies. <possibly some short-lived Western Emperors?>
*Sextus becomes Emperor of the West.
===398===
*Western Emperor Sextus adopts Claudius Seneca iunior, immediately naming him Caesar Occidens.
==400s==
===410===
*Emperor Sextus dies. Claudius Seneca becomes Augustus Occidens.
===417===
*Hlodio, King of the Salian Franks, lays with his wife on the eve of battle, while possessed by a Frankish sea-god. His son, Marwig (Merovech/Meroveus), is born nine months later.
===421===
*Emperor Claudius Seneca tells the civitates of Britannia that Rome has neither the funds, the men, nor indeed the desire to defend them from raiding Picti and Scoti.
===425===
*A slave revolt begins in Ravenna, lead by a number of gladiators. For historical reasons, the leaders and many others all claim the name 'Spartacus.'
===427===
*Maximus Volusius, Dux of the X and XVI Legions, puts down the last fighters on the Spartacus revolt, though some claim that the real instigator still lives. Following a grand Triumph in Rome, Cladius Seneca adopts Maximus as his son, and appoints him Caesar.
===433===
*In Rome, Claudius Seneca dies, succeeded by his Caesar and adopted son, Maximus.
===442===
*Guorthigirn (Vortigern) the Unlucky takes control of the council of the British civitates. One of his first acts is to order the Proconsular Library expanded, by having copies made of the entire Library of Alexandria.
===447===
*Vortigern and the council invite Saxons lead by brothers Hengist and Horsa to settle on the Isle of Thanet, and help defend Britannia from foreign raiders. This turns out to have been a mistake. Vortigern also marries the daughter of Hengist, believing that this will keep Hengist loyal.
===449===
*At the invitation of Hengist and Horsa, many more Saxons arrive in Britannia, along with a large number of Angles and Jutes. They demand more than the British can give them, and settle beyond their alloted territory, provoking ar.
===451===
*Battle of the Catalaunian Plains <battle between coalitions, Merovech becomes King of the Franks>
===455===
*Cattegirn ap Guorthigirn (Catigern, son of Vortigern) and Horsa both die in the Battle of Aylesford, but not by each-others' hands.
===457===
Guorthimir ap Guorthigirn (Vortimer, son of Vortigern) is killed at the Battle of Craysford. The Saxon forces lead by Hengist and his son Æsc are said to have slain four thousand men, though the actual numbers are rather less. Shortly thereafter, they send messengers about claiming to seek peace, and asking for a parley to be held to negotiate. Thus, numerous British chieftains lead by Vortigern came to the council and met the Saxons leaders. However, Hengist did not have good intentions: at his command, all his lords draw forth hidden blades, and kill all of the British chieftains save for Vortigern, who was married to Hengist's daughter. This will e called the [[Treachery of the Long Knives.
===459===
*Ambrosius Aurelianus the Elder, called Uther by the Britons, leads a revolt of the British civitates against Vortigern, who is burnt to death in his castle at the Siege of Ganarew, along with his Saxon wife. For this, Uther is known as 'Pendragon' ('chief dragon', 'greatest leader'), and elected Dux Britanniarum.
==Early 460s==
*Uther Pendragon is acknowledged as High King by the tribes of Britannia.
===465===
*The inconclusive Battle of Wippedesfleot is fought between the Anglo-Saxon host of Hengist and Æsc, and an outnumbered scratch legion lead by the Pendragon. Much slaughter occurs on both sides, including the death of a popular Saxon thegn named Wipped. It is felt by many of the old men, and also by Ambrosius, that the battle could have been a complete British victory, were the soldiers more disciplined. Both sides are reluctant to face each other for some years thereafter. The Britons of Armorica nonetheless acknowledge Uther as 'Rigotamos' ('High King').
===467===
*Guorlais, Dux of the Cornovii, revolts against the High King, believing that Ambrosius is 'too Roman' to lead the tribes of Britannia.
===468===
*Guorlais is killed at the Siege of Durocornovium (modern Tintagel). After an unsuitably short mourning period, his wife Eigyrn, a princess of the Dumnonii, is married to Uther.
===469===
*Ambrosius Aurelianus the Younger is born to Eigyrn. Given the time span, his father is known to be Uther, not Guorlais, much to the resentment of his elder half-sisters. Uther is asked to intervene in a war in Roman Gallia, as the Roman and Gaulish forces are in need of aid against the Visigoths.
===470===
*Uther Rigotamos, wounded at the Battle of Autissiodorum, dies at the Gaulish town of Aballo, having been betrayed by Arvandus before the battle. Eigyrn dies of grief, and their son is taken by Myrddin to be fostered by a Romano-British equestrian (knight) named Marcus Ectorius Kyner, who serves as civil prefect (functionally, a country lord) of a community near a forest in Catuvellaunia.
===473===
*Hengist and Æsc defeat the demoralized British in several battles, taking 'immense booty'.
===475===
*Guorthefyr ap Guorthimir (Vortipor, son of Vortimer) becomes King of Demetia (modern Dyfed).
===485===
*Inconclusive Battle of Mercredesburne fought between a British force lead by Rhyddfedd Frych, King of Powys, and a Saxon force lead by Ælle, King of the Suþseaxna (Southern Saxons).
===485-486===
*Ambrosius Aurelianus the Younger, called Arthur, wins twelve battles againts the forces of Æsc and Ælle, gaining a reputation for invincibility and being elected Dux Britanniarum (though he held the post de facto before that).
===486===
*Dux Syagrius and King Hlodowig (Clovis) die at the inconclusive Battle of Novidunum, along with most of the higher officers on both sides. The battlefield outside the city will be widely regarded as haunted and cursed for decades afterwards.
===488===
*The British tribes acknowledge Dux Britanniarum Ambrosius Aurelianus the Younger as High King under his Celtic name of Arthur Pendragon.
===492===
*High King Arthur Pendragon retakes Camulodunum, and moves his court there from Kelliwic in Kernow.
===496===
*Lucius Tiberius becomes Western Emperor.
===499===
*The Britons of Armorica acknowledge Arthur as Rigotamos.
==500s==
===500===
*Emperor Lucius Tiberius demands tribute (or what might be called 'back taxes') from the British kingdoms, who have been victorious against their invaders. By the end of the year, he is dead, and Ambrosius Aurelianus Romanorum is named Emperor of the (Western) Roman Empire.
===508===
*In Jerusalem, the construction of the Third Temple begins.
===509===
*Fabian of Florentia is elected Bishop of Rome, under the name Fabian II.
===513===
*Crassus, the Eastern Roman Emperor, dies of an illness (probably pneumonia). Eastern Roman civil war begins, but soon fails to be terribly civil.
===514===
*Four new Earths and Moons appear in the sky.
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