Editing 395 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[January 17]] &ndash; Emperor [[Theodosius I]], age 48, dies of a disease involving severe [[edema]] in [[Milan]].<ref>Norwich, John Julius (1989) ''Byzantium: The Early Centuries'', Guild Publishing, p. 116</ref> The [[Roman Empire]] is divided for the final time into an eastern and a western half. The [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern Roman Empire]] is centered in [[Constantinople]] under [[Arcadius]], son of Theodosius, and the [[Western Roman Empire]] in [[Mediolanum]] under his brother [[Honorius]].
* [[April 27]] &ndash; Arcadius marries [[Aelia Eudoxia]], daughter of the [[Franks|Frankish]] general [[Flavius Bauto]] (without the knowledge or consent of [[Rufinus (consul)|Rufinus]], [[Praetorian prefect of the East]]). His seven-year-old half-sister, [[Galla Placidia]], is sent to [[Rome]], where she spends her childhood in the household of [[Stilicho]] and his wife [[Serena (wife of Stilicho)|Serena]].
* [[Revolt of Alaric I]]: 
**[[Alaric I|Alaric]], [[Visigoths|Visigothic]] leader of the ''[[foederati]]'', renounces Roman fealty and is declared king, waging war against both parts of the Roman Empire, and ending a 16-year period of peace.
** Alaric besieges Constantinople. After commitments from [[Rufinus (consul)|Rufinus]], the Pretorian prefect of the East, and chief adviser to Arcadius, the Goths move further west.
** Stilicho arrives in the fall with his army to fight the Goths. Rufinus, the strong man of the east, persuades the emperor to cancel Stilicho's campaign. Emperor Arcadius forbite Stilicho to attack Alaric and demandes that his army leave the territory of the East Roman Empire.
** The [[Goths]], led by Alaric, invade and devastate [[Thrace]] and [[Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]] and impose a tribute on [[Athens]]. 
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Rufinus (consul)|Rufinus]], [[Praetorian prefect of the East]], is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under [[Gainas]].

==== Asia ====
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Later Yan]] is defeated by its former vassal [[Northern Wei]] at the [[Battle of Canhe Slope]], during the [[Southern and Northern Dynasties]] period of China.
* The [[Huns]] begin their large-scale attack on the Eastern Roman Empire. They invade [[Armenia]], [[Cappadocia]], and enter parts of [[Syria]], threatening [[Antioch]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Huns|last=Thompson|first=E. A.|publisher=Blackwell Publishers|editor-last=Heather|editor-first=Peter|year=1996|pages=30–31|isbn=978-0-631-15899-8|author-link=Edward Arthur Thompson|url=https://archive.org/details/hunspeoplesofeur00eath}}</ref>

==== India ====
* King [[Rudrasimha III]], ruler of the [[Western Satraps]] ([[India]]), is defeated by the [[Gupta Empire]].

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==== Agriculture ====
* An estimated 330,000 acres of [[Agricultural land|farmland]] lie abandoned in [[Campania]] (southern [[Italy]]), partly as a consequence of [[malaria]] from [[mosquito]]es bred in [[swamp]]y areas, but mostly because imprudent [[agriculture]] has ruined the land.

==== Religion ====
* [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]], age 40, becomes [[coadjutor bishop|bishop]] of [[Hippo Regius]] (modern [[Algeria]]). His assignment is the reunification of the [[Christianity in the Roman Africa province|Roman Catholic Church in Africa]], primarily focusing on the [[Donatist]] movement led by [[Primianus of Carthage]].
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* Russian astronomer [[Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov]] claimed that [[Revelation to John]] could be [[Apocalypse of John – dated astronomically|astronomically dated]] to September 30, 395.