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  Roman Emperors DIR Maximianus Herculius
When the Emperor Diocletian determined that the empire was too large for one man to govern on his own, he made Maximianus his Caesar in 285/6 and elevated him to the rank of Augustus in perhaps the spring of 286.
This arrangement, called the "Tetrarchy", was meant not only to provide a stronger foundation for the two emperors' rule, but also to end any possible fighting over the succession to the throne once the two senior Augusti had left the throne--a problem which had bedeviled the principate since the time of the Emperor Augustus.
The emperor appears to have spent the remainder of his reign in a state of indolence in Milan or Aquileia and was content to allow Constantius to shoulder the real burdens of state including, among other things, the German threat.
www.roman-emperors.org /maxherc.htm   (1295 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christendom
Though the emperor was no longer pontifex maximus and the statue of Victory was removed from the senate house, though Theodosius decreed the final closing of the temples and put an end to pagan public worship, the ancient world was not really converted; it was hardly a catechumen.
For close on two centuries, from Nicholas I to Leo IX in the middle of the eleventh century, the plenary powers of the pope had been but exceptionally exercised north of the Alps though they had been acknowledged in principle, but in this most legal of centuries the exercise of papal jurisdiction becomes habitual.
Of the two emperors whom he helped to the throne, the first repudiated all his engagements and declared open war upon him in Italy, the second was that Frederick II who was to be the most thoroughgoing foe of the papacy.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03699b.htm   (5585 words)

  
 UAVU: astrology zodiac sign compatibility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Encyclopædia Britannica
It was the traditional duty of the emperor to maintain the pax deorum, and Constantine assumed that he had to win and retain for the empire the favour of God.
In 305 the two emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, resigned, to be succeeded by their respective deputy emperors, Galerius and Constantius.
From 337 to 350 Constans, sympathetic to the orthodox Christians, was emperor in the West, and Constantius II, sympathetic to the Arians, was emperor in the East.
www.bible.ca /trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm   (11012 words)

  
 Timeline 1811-1820   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barlow was on a diplomatic mission to the emperor for President Madison.
Pike led two expeditions from 1805 to 1807, one in the upper Mississippi region of the Louisiana Purchase and the second in what is now New Mexico and Colorado.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had marched into Belgium to find himself confronted by two allied armies, which he tried to split apart.
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 Mexico
From 1821 to 1877, there were two emperors, several dictators, and enough presidents and provisional executives to make a new government on the average of every nine months.
Mexico lost Texas (1836), and after defeat in the war with the U.S. (1846–1848), it lost the area that is now California, Nevada, and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The subsequent civil war was interrupted by the French invasion of Mexico (1861) and the crowning of Maximilian of Austria as emperor (1864).
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 Constantius I
The two emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, abdicated in 305, and Constantius and Galerius became emperors.
Constantine I, Roman emperor - Constantine I or Constantine the Great, 288?–337, Roman emperor, b.
Constantine: Britain's Roman Emperor: 1,600 years ago this month, York saw the proclamation of a man who changed the course of the......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0813335.html   (235 words)

  
 Australian Museum - New Sites (archived)
Uncovering the tombs of two ancient Emperors, this exhibition is one of the most significant to leave China in over a decade....
Find out about the mammal collection, mammal research, bats, marine mammals, as well as extensive resources including a photo gallery, fact sheets, mammal links and FAQs....
The Two Emperors Education kit is now online.
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