Arcadius

Names:

• 377: Flavius Arcadius 
• 19 January 383: Flavius Arcadius Augustus
• 1 May 408: natural death

Successor of: Theodosius I

Relatives:

• father: Theodosius I
• mother: Aelia Flacilla
• married to: Aelia Eudoxia I
• children: Pulcheria, Theodosius II, Arcadia, Marina, Flacilla

• 395, 17 January: Death of Theodosius I; Arcadius and Honorius succeed their father; Alaric marches into Greece
• 395, 27 April: Marries Eudoxia
• 395, 27 November: Rufinus killed; Arcadius' main adviser is Eutropius
• 396 Arcadius consul IV (with Honorius III); Alaric repelled by Stilicho
• 397 Birth of Flacilla
• 398 Patriarch Nectarius dies; succeeded by John Chrysostom
• 399 Revolt of Visigothic settlers in Phrygia; conspiracy of Gainas; fall of Eutropius; in the Sasanian Empire, Bahram IV is succeeded by Yazdgard I; birth of Pulcheria
• 400 Gainas in Constantinople; praetorian prefect Aurelian exiled; Gainas unable to control the city; streetfights; Gainas leaves; return of Aurelian
• 401 The Hunnish leader Uldin kills Gainas; birth of Theodosius and Flacilla
• 402 Consul V (with Honorius V)
• 403 Theodosius II consul (with Flavius Rumoridus); John Chrysostom sent into exile by Eudoxia, but returns immediately
• 404, 24 June: John Chrysostom again exiled; H. Sophia burns down
• 404, 6 October: Death of Eudoxia
• 405 Anthemius appointed praetorian prefect 
• 406 Consul VI (with Flavius Anicius Petronius Probus); Honorius and pope Innocentius demand John's return; Arcadius ignores their embassy
• 407 Theodosius II consul II (with Honorius VII)
• 407, September: death of John Chrysostom
• 408, 1 May: Death of Arcadius; Anthemius is guardian of Theodosius II

• Constantinople: Forum and Column of Arcadius
• Diocaesarea: Northeastern gate
• Ephesus: Arcadian Road

Contemporary events:

• 400 Synesius, On Imperial Rule
• 403 Death of Epiphanius of Salamis
• 405 Jerome finishes the Vulgata