394 - Definition and Overview

Events

• September 6 - Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
• The Olympic Games are abandoned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
• The sacred fire of the Roman Empire stop burning (see Vesta).
• Epiphanius of Salamis attacks Origen as a heretic.

Births

• Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk

Deaths

• Libanius, rhetorician (approximate date)
• Didymus The Blind, theologian