Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I

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1. Story
2. The empire is divided between Theodosius's sons Arcadius and Honorius. Contemporaries did not understand this as creating two empires - the empire had been administratively partitioned repeatedly since Diocletian, and legislation continued to be issued in both emperors' names. The division becomes permanent only in retrospect, which is a small rehearsal of the same problem 476 raises.
3. Knowledge
4. Constantinople
5. Rome
6. Roman Law
7. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
8. Connections
9. Rome
10. Constantinople
11. Roman Law
12. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
13. The Roman Legion
14. Roman Law
15. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
16. Ostia Antica
17. Via Appia
18. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
19. Construction of the Via Appia begins
20. The Punic Wars
21. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
22. Assassination of Julius Caesar
23. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
24. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
25. Dedication of Constantinople
26. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
27. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
28. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
29. The Pantheon, Rome
30. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
31. Antioch on the Orontes
32. Dedication of Constantinople
33. Silkworm cultivation reaches Byzantium
34. Plague reaches the Mediterranean
35. Christianity
36. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
37. Dedication of Constantinople
38. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
39. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
40. Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
41. Ottoman capture of Constantinople
42. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
43. Justinian commissions Hagia Sophia from two geometers
44. Istanbul
45. Rome
46. Latin as an Administrative Language
47. Justinian I
48. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
49. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
50. The Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana)
51. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
52. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
53. Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
54. Ottoman capture of Constantinople
55. Evidence
56. Where to end the Roman Empire is an open scholarly question with several defensible answers - 476, 480, 554, 602, 800 and 1453 among them - and the choice reflects the historian's criterion (western imperial office, state continuity, material culture, self-identification) rather than a discoverable fact. A substantial 'continuity' school treats the eastern Roman state as unbroken to 1453.