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Constantine was born as Flavius Valerius Constantius some time within this roughly ten-year timespan. Due to varying historical accounts, however, it is not sure what exactly date/year. Constantine's father was an army officer, and his mother simply his father's current partner, who he later seperated from.
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Constantine's father died, and supposdly on his deatt bed, appointed constantine his successor.
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Constantine's first association with christianity was at the battle of the Mulvian bridge over the river Tiber; where Maxentius and Constantine fough for control of their halves of the western half of the Roman Empire. Before the battle, according to a 4th century historian Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine saw the heavens open before him and a flaming cross that said "in this sign, thou shalt conquer". So he ordered his men paint their shields with the cross, subsequently, he decisively won.
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Constantine, now the Western Emperor, and Licinius the Eastern Emperor, signed the Edict of Milan. The edict proclaimed everyone within each half of the empire the right to worship to everyone regardeless of deity or faith. the edict also ended the persecution of Christians, which began after Jesus' crusifixion. In ending the persecution of Christians it also gave them the right to organized churches and return of previously confiscated property.
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Cnstantine summoned all the bishops of his owned provinces o Arlate(Arles) to make some religious legislation, the council(with him) decided to brutally repress Donatist's and all of their churches were confiscated.
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Constantine appointed a Bassainus, his brother-in-law, as Caeser of Italy and the Danubian Provinces, Licinius thought of Bassainus as constantine's puppet and him being in charge of the militarily valuable Danubian provinces and Italy would be a huge power gain. So in 314 Licinius convinced Bassainus to revolt against Constantine, but Bassainus was put down in 315.
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Constantine and Licinius were in a cold war preparing for the coming storm when Constantine decided to act by attacking Licinius' larger army at Cibalae in Pannonia, where he routed the enemy.
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In an attempt to undermine Constantine, Licinius named a man the "New Western Roman Emperor.
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Licinius and Constantine came to an agreement where the false Western roman Emperor was put to death and all of the Balkan and Danubian provinces except for Thracia were surrendered to Constantine (which simply was Licinius giving his already taken from him provinces away).
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Licinius began appointing his own officials for his interest adn oppressing Christians in his provinces.
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Whilst fighting off Gothic invaders Constantine and his army encroached into Thracia, Licinius' province, which may have been on purpose.
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Licinius declared war against Constantine, and Constantine acted first by attacking Licinius' army of one-hundred-sixty-thousand soldiers and won severely
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Constantine enacted new laws that outlawed sexual immorality, gladiator fights, looted pagan churches, and outlawed pagan sacrifices.
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Constantine saw Roma as an innefective capital for the frontiers and so he moved it to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople.
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on September 18th, 324 at the city of Chrysopolis, where Licinius fled, Constantine destoryed the remainder of Licinius' army and improsined Licinius, who was later executed. As of this date, Constantine was now the sole ruler of the Roman Empire.
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In this year Constantine summoned the bishops of all of the Empire to Nicaea for another religious council.
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Constantine's wife Fausta tried to have an affari with Constantine's eldest son Crispus, and when he refused she blamed him for either treason or adultery and constantine hung him, Constantine's mother convinced him of Fausta's treachery and when she was tracked down, she killed herself.
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Constantine and his son led a larger campaign against the Goths, retaking much of Dacia, which previous emperors lost.
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In this year Constantine began grooming his sons as future emperors, and also started appointing them to higher offices to give them experiences.
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Within this time, Constantine began planning a military campaign to annex Persia.
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Before Constantine's planned military campaign in Persia Constantine falls deathly and dies. Before his death,however, before he died he ordered himself baptized in the Euphrates River, as Jesus did before him. After his death constantine was elevated to the status as a pagan deity by the senate, which was rare given their indescrepencies with each other.
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Constantine had eliminated all iner threats to the Empire, but the Northern Barbarians still remained a threat. So in 328 he launched a campaign against some of these barbarian tribes.
