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Dates of the Roman Emperors

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Table of the Emperors in the Dynasty of Constantine
Name [Official Title]
Birth - Made Caesar - Further stages of career - Death

Constantine I [Imperator Caesar Flavius Constantinus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus]
27 February of 271, 272, or 273, at Naissus, Moesia - 306 made emperor (Caesar) at York. - 324 became sole emperor - Died of natural causes May 22, 337 at Ancytona, near Nicomedia.

Constantine II [Flavius Claudius Constantinus]
316 at Arles - March 1, 317 Caesar - Western emperor September 9, 337 - Killed in 340 when about to attack Constans.

Constans [Flavius Julius Constans]
320 - Caesar from 333 - Western emperor from September 9, 337 and took over entire west after killing Constantine II - Assassinated by Gaiso, a barbarian emissary of Megnentius, in 350 at the fortress of Helene, at the foot of the Pyrenees

Constantius II [Flavius Julius Constantius]
August 7, 317 at Sirmium - Caesar from November 8, 324 - Eastern emperor from September 9, 337; sole emperor from 353 (when Magnentius died) . - November 3, 361 Constantius II died of fever.

Magnentius [Flavius Magnus Magnentius]
c. 303 at Amiens - Proclaimed emperor at Autun on January 18, 350 in opposition to Constans. - Defeated at the Battle of Mursa on September 28, 351. - Suicide at Lyon on August 11, 353.

Vetranio
? - Proclaimed western emperor by his troops in Illyricum on March 1, 350. - Abdicated later in 350 and retired to Bythinia. - Died in 356.

Silvanus [Claudius Silvanus]
? - Declared himself emperor in 355. ? - Shortly after he named himself emperor, his soldiers assassinated him.

Julian [Flavius Claudius Julianus]
April 332 at Constantinople - Proclaimed caesar by Constantius II on November 6, 355 and charged with Gaul and Britain. - Proclaimed emperor by his troops in 330 and he became sole emperor in 361. - Killed in battle against the Persians on June 26, 363 at Maranga, in Persia.

Jovian [Flavius Jovianus]
c. 331 at Belgrade - June 27, 363 sole emperor - February 16, 364 died at Dadastana of accidental suffocation.

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