Aurelian is known for reuniting the Empire after its fracture during the reign of Gallienus, and also for being the Father of Christmas. In the year 274, the winter solstice fell on 25 December. The Emperor Aurelian proclaimed that fixed date the Natalis Solis Invicti, the festival of the sun. Early Christians, who in those days worshiped in secret for fear of being fed to the lions, could not celebrate the birth of Jesus in the open.
In the year 268, Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Augustus, known as Claudius II Gothicus, assumed the Roman throne. Desperate for fresh army recruits, he decreed that young men remain unmarried,...
Little is definitively known about this Roman Empress, wife of the Emperor Aurelian, although she seems to have descended in some way from the Emperor Trajan. Aside from a brief listing in the...
In the spring of A.D. 260, the Roman Emperor Valerian was taken prisoner by the Persian King of Kings. This humiliating capture, unprecedented in the long annals of Rome, ended Valerian s reign,...
Helena was the consort to Constantius Chlorus and the mother of Constantine the Great. By 324, Constantine alone ruled the length and breadth of the Empire. Two years later, he dispatched Helena to...
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