On This Day
393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.[1]
Honorius (9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla. After the death of Theodosius, Honorius ruled the western half of the empire while his brother Arcadius ruled the eastern half. In 410, during Honorius’s reign over the Western Roman Empire, Rome was sacked for the first time in almost 800 years.
Even by the standards of the Western Empire, Honorius’s reign was precarious and chaotic. His early reign was supported by his principal general, Stilicho, who was successively Honorius’s guardian (during his childhood) and his father-in-law (after the emperor became an adult).
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1350 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
Vincent Ferrer, OP (Valencian: Sant Vicent Ferrer [ˈsam viˈsɛm feˈreɾ], Spanish: San Vicente Ferrer, Italian: San Vincenzo Ferreri, German: Sankt Vinzenz Ferrer, Dutch: Sint-Vincent Ferrer, French: Saint Vincent Ferrier; 23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Valencian Dominican friar and preacher, who gained acclaim as a missionary and a logician. He is honored as a saint of the Catholic Church and other churches of Catholic traditions.
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