Sirmium
363-364 CE
Follis Æ 19mm, 3,05g
Obv: D N IOVIANVS P F AVG. Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: VOT / V / MVLT / X / BSIRM. Legend in four lines within wreath
RIC 118
331 CE
Birth of Jovian in Moesia Superior to the commander of Constantius II‘s imperial bodyguards.
363 CE
June 26
June 26
Death of Julian II due to a wound received at the Battle of Samarra. His soldiers choose Jovian as Emperor.
363 CE
June 27
June 27
Jovian begins a retreat while being harassed by Sassanids.
363 CE
July
July
Jovian agrees to a humiliating peace treaty with the Sassanids to allow his forces to retreat.
363 CE
September
September
Jovian arrives at Edessa and issues an edict to end the Sassanid war.
363 CE
October
October
Jovian arrives to Antioch where the people are enraged. He orders the Library at Antioch burnt.
363 CE
December
December
Jovian declares his infant son consul.
364 CE
February 26
February 26
Death of the Emperor Jovian, possibly from suffocating by poisonous paint fumes. Valentinian, the father of Gratian, is proclaimed Augustus.