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  1. 18 hours ago · Constantine I (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. [h] He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, decriminalizing Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution in a period ...

    • 25 July 306 – 22 May 337
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  2. 18 hours ago · List of Roman emperors. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [1] [2] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles ...

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  4. 3 days ago · However, his eldest son John VIII (1425–48) frittered away the opportunities thus created and another son Constantine XI (1448–53) was left to face the consequences. It is a 1066 and all that reading of history, which has turned Manuel II into the last great Byzantine emperor, John VIII into a bad thing, and Constantine XI into a doomed hero.

  5. 3 days ago · The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin c. 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches. Until the last decades of the 20th century, the primary theory was provided by Edward Gibbon in The History ...

  6. 18 hours ago · Xi Jinping will next week visit Europe for the first time in five years, amid rising tensions with the EU over trade and China's implicit support of Russia. China's president will make state ...

  7. 4 days ago · By VERA FILES. Apr 29, 2024 6:44 PM. A video on YouTube falsely claims that President Xi Jinping ordered all Chinese ships patrolling the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to retreat after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. On April 27, a YouTube channel published the untrue four-minute video that bore this headline:

  8. 3 days ago · Thomas L. McDonald, October 25, 2018. Between 326 and 328, St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, traveled to the Holy Land to search for sites and relics associated with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The cross, the nails, the tunic of Christ, and a rope used to tie him to the cross were recovered.