Julian the Apostate (In Our Time)
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years after Constantine the Great converted to Christianity and introduced a policy of tolerating the faith across the empire, Julian (c.331 - 363 AD) aimed to promote paganism instead, branding Constantine the worst of all his predecessors. Julian was a philosopher-emperor in th
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Around 361
- Edict of Milan (313)
- Sack of Rome by Visigoths (410)
- Council of Nicaea (325)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Conversion of Constantine (312)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Christianity becomes Roman state religion (380)
- Founding of Constantinople (330)
- Council of Chalcedon (451)