What happened in Rome in 380 A.D?

Answer 1

Historians see 395 the point at which the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire split. This was not due to an imperial decision to do this, but to circumstances. This was the year emperor Theodosius I died. He had appointed his two sons as co-emperors. Arcadius was given the east and Honorius was given the west. This it was not in itself greatly eventful. It was nothing new as the empire had had co-emperors with one in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and one in the west part many times previously

The empire split because of two main factors. One is that the two co-emperors were young and inexperienced and powerful politicians in the eastern and the western of the empire took advantage of this to conspire against each other. The other, and most crucial, factor was that the Germanic invasions of the western part of the Roman Empire begun 11 years later. The western part of the empire started to crumble under the weight of these invasions and eventually fell. The eastern part of the empire was not affected by these invasions and remained powerful. With the pressure of the invasions, western part lost its political cohesion and there was a lot of infighting and many usurpations. At times, the emperors of the eastern part of the empire took advantage to exert influence in the western part.

Answer 2

In 395 the emperor Theodosius I died. He was succeeded by his sons Arcadius, who took charge of the eastern part of the Roman Empire , and Honorius, who took charge of the western part.