https://ancientrome.org/tags/milvian-bridge/ Recent content in Milvian Bridge on Ancient Rome Hugo en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/milvian-bridge-the-battle-that-made-christianity/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/milvian-bridge-the-battle-that-made-christianity/ <p>On October 28, 312 AD, Constantine defeated Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge north of Rome, ending the civil war between them and establishing Constantine as sole ruler of the Western Empire. The battle itself was not particularly difficult — Maxentius&rsquo;s forces were pushed back onto the bridge over the Tiber, the bridge collapsed, and Maxentius drowned in the river — but what happened before the battle, or what Constantine subsequently claimed happened before it, transformed the event from a routine imperial civil war into one of the most consequential days in the history of Western civilization.</p>