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- January 1 : End of gladiators. The public games of gladiators are forbidden to Rome (traditional date of the death of St. Telemachus at the Coliseum ).
- June 24 : New exile of the patriarch John Chrysostom , banished from Constantinople under the influence of the Empress Eudoxia , wife of Arcadius. His followers set fire to the cathedral Hagia Sophia. The patriarch is recalled, then exiled again.
- According to Paul Veyne , winter 403/404 corresponds to the two major barbarian invasions in Gaul and in the plains of the Danube , which marked the political end of the Roman Empire Births in 404
Deaths in 404
- October 6 : Eudoxia , Empress of the East , wife of Emperor Arcadius , following a miscarriage.
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