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Events on November 27 in history

395Nov, 27

Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.

Flavius Rufinus (Greek: Φλάβιος Ῥουφῖνος; c. 335 – 27 November 395) was a 4th-century East Roman statesman of Aquitanian extraction who served as Praetorian prefect of the East for the emperor Theodosius I, as well as for his son Arcadius, under whom Rufinus exercised significant influence in the state affairs.

He was the subject of the verse invective In Rufinum by the western court poet Claudian.

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    Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
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    Battle of Canhe Slope

    Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.