<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_War_(376–382)" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gothic War (376–382)">Gothic War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianople" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Adrianople">Battle of Adrianople</a>: A large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> army led by Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valens" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Valens">Valens</a> is defeated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Visigoths">Visigoths</a>. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_9#cite_note-2" id="mwIQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIg">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation cs1" id="CITEREFBrodribbBesant1879">Brodribb, William Jackson; Besant, Walter (1879). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" id="mwBq4" title="s:Constantinople: A Sketch of its History from its Foundation to its Conquest by the Turks in 1453/Chapter 3"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constantinople:_A_Sketch_of_its_History_from_its_Foundation_to_its_Conquest_by_the_Turks_in_1453/Chapter_3" id="mwBq8" rel="mw:ExtLink"><i id="mwBrA">Constantinople: A Sketch of its History from its Foundation to its Conquest by the Turks in 1453</i><span id="mwBrE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></a></span>. Seeley, Jackson &amp; Halliday. pp.<span id="mwBrI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>50–51 <span id="mwBrM" typeof="mw:Entity">–</span> via <a href="./Wikisource" id="mwBrQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwBrU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Constantinople%3A+A+Sketch+of+its+History+from+its+Foundation+to+its+Conquest+by+the+Turks+in+1453&amp;rft.pages=50-51&amp;rft.pub=Seeley%2C+Jackson+%26+Halliday&amp;rft.date=1879&amp;rft.aulast=Brodribb&amp;rft.aufirst=William+Jackson&amp;rft.au=Besant%2C+Walter&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+9"></span></span>