Major Events:

A) The Constantinian Dynasty started with the death of Constantine, Sr. in 337. His several sons, subsequently formed the dynasty and were in power from 337-363. The brothers Constantine Jr. fought with his brother Constans, in which the former was defeated and died in 340. Ten years later Constans himself fell while putting down a revolt in Gaul, 350. From the ensuing civil war another Constantius (II) emerged as the victor in the battle of Mursa after heavy losses, in Hungary, 351. This Constantius was a pompous and cruel beaurocrat, head of a spy-ridden police state. He visited Rome in 357 is related to us by the historian Ammianus Marcelinus, perhaps the greatest secular writer of the age. His hero was
B) Julian the Apostate, 361-363. He became Caesar in Gaul, 355. Julian died in a campaign against the Persians. The army elected the popular
C) Jovian to be his successor, 363-364. His rule marks the end of the Constantinian Dynasty. His successors were two brothers named Valentinian and Valens. These two began a dynasty that was to last over 90 years.
D) Valentinian I. ruled the West and Valens the East.

1.) Jutes, Angles and Saxons toward Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein;
2.) the invasions of the Franks further south from Holland;
3.) the invasions of the Burgundians toward eastern France and Switzerland;
4.) the invasions of the Visigoths from Rumania to Constantinople (395), Athens, from there through Yugoslavia to Rome (410, reign of Theodosius I. (408-450)) and all the way down to southern Italy and all the way back again to around Marseille, France;
5.) The `Council of Ephesus' begins in 341 and ends in
6.) the invasions of the Huns from Russia all the way to Jerusalem (395), into Italy (452), into southern Germany and into France; and
7.) the invasions of the Vandals from around what is today Berlin through France and Spain into Africa and Carthage - then from there by ships to Italy; - all of this occurred between 375-476, a massive migration.