| 305–306: Constantius made emperor in the West; dies in Britain; Constantine present, buries him, and is proclaimed emperor by the army in Britain |
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| 312: Vision of the cross in the sky with the words “In hoc signo vinces”; Constantine converts and defeats Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge |
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| 325: Nicene Council as an Arian-leaning event – homoousios a violent innovation; Arius sympathetic; only two bishops refuse; others sign under protest, “reading homoiousios under homoousios” |
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| c. 325: Alexander of Alexandria comes to Nicomedia before Nicaea and there is a strongly Arianized Nicomedia-centred pre-Nicene gathering around Eusebius of Nicomedia |
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| c. 328: Athanasius’ “illicit ordination” – two Egyptian bishops locked in a church and forced to consecrate him; others anathematise him |
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| 330 / 334: Foundation/dedication of Constantinople in Constantine’s 28th year (glossed as 334) with compressed episcopal succession: after Alexander of Constantinople’s death, Eusebius of Nicomedia is simply translated into the see |
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| c. 336–337: Arius rehabilitated under Constantine’s later years; his death given in an Arian-friendly way (no Alexander-prayer miracle), with emphasis on Eusebius of Nicomedia and smooth transition into the rule of Constantine’s sons |
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| “Extent” claim: Eusebius “brought down” his Church History to the point when Constantine was succeeded by his sons |
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| Shifted placements (others vs Philostorgius) |
| Death of Arius placed under Constantine’s lifetime, immediately before a planned readmission to communion in Constantinople; Alexander prays and Arius’ bowels gush out in the latrine |
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| Death of Arius placed “early in the reign of Constantius,” but with the same Alexander-prayer and latrine story (Arius crisis shifted from Constantine to Constantius) |
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| Dedication of Constantinople effectively dated around 330, not “28th year / 334,” and with a more elaborate episcopal list (Metrophanes → Alexander → Paul → Eusebius of Nicomedia, etc.) |
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| Athanasius’ succession to Alexander presented as regular and saintly (childhood “baptizing game,” Alexander’s designation, lawful election), explicitly rejecting any “illicit ordination” legend |
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| De facto “Eusebian boundary”: continuation historians treat “Eusebius” as stopping before the full Arian/Nicene struggle and see the period of Constantine’s sons as their remit rather than his |
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