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Rh A. D. 79.Titus, Emperor of Rome. Jerusalem taken and destroyed by Titus, Vespasian's son. Nearly 1,500,000 Jews perished on this occasion.

A. D. 81.Domitian, Rome's Emperor. He banished John the evangelist to the island of Patmos.

A. D. 98.Trajan, the Roman Emperor, forbid the Christian assemblies.

A. D. 118.Adrian, Roman Emperor, renewed, but afterward suspended the persecution of the Christians.

A. D. 138.Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome.

A. D. 161.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor, during whose reign the Christians suffered great persecution.

A. D. 195.Severus was the Roman Emperor.

A. D. 211.Caracalla and Geta, Roman Emperors. Caracalla murders Geta.

A. D. 222.Alexander Severus, Emperor of Rome.

A. D. 235.Maximinus assassinates Severus; and is proclaimed Emperor.

A. D. 238.Gordian, Emperor of Rome.

A. D. 249.Decius, Rome's Emperor.

A. D. 251.Gallus, the Roman Emperor, persecutes the Christians.

A. D. 254.Valerianus, Emperor.

A. D. 268.Claudius, Emperor of Rome.

A. D. 306.Constantine, the Great, Emperor of Rome. He becomes a Christian; and stops the persecution of Christianity.

The toleration of Christianity through the Roman Empire took place under Constantine the Great, about 506 years A. C. Constantine fought under the banner of the cross against his enemies, and was successful. Constantine removed the seat of the Roman Empire to Constantinople about 329 years A. C.

Constantine ordered the heathen god Serapis, and a pillar on which are marked the degrees of the Nile, indicating the rise of the water, to be removed into the church of Alexandria in Africa.