This page relates to the year 378 Calendrier Julien.

Events

• February: The Alamans invade the Alsace.
• May: Gratien beats the Alamans (Lentiens) with Argentovaria, close to Colmar, crosses the Rhine with their continuation and the constrained one with peace.

• August 9th: Battle of Turkey-red cotton, during which the emperor Valens east demolishes by the Visigoths of Fritigern and killed. The Thrace is plundered, except the strengthened cities, that the barbarians cannot take. Turkey-red cotton and Constantinople resists. Théodose, a Spanish sent by Gratien, has time to intervene to take again the situation in hand.

• nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
• Driven out Altaï by Jéou-jan, the Mongolian clan of the Huns Hephtalites emigrates towards the Sogdiane.
• the king of Persia Chahpuhr II reaffirms the Persian domination on the Kusana.
• the kingdom of Himyar to the Yemen finds its independence with respect to Aksoum.
• New invasion of the Quades and the Sarmates in Pannonia, pushed back by Théodose I {{er}}.
• Completion by Valens of the aqueduct of Constantinople started under Constantin.
• the catholic ritual is fixed in the apostolic Constitutions .

Births in 378

Death in 378

• August 9th: Valens, Roman Emperor demolishes and killed by the Visigoths with the Bataille of Turkey-red cotton.

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