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Julian the Apostate, detail of a marble statue; in the Louvre, Paris.
After the death of the Roman emperor Julian on June 26, 363, the army’s general staff proclaimed Jovian as the new emperor. Jovian reigned from 363 to 364 before he died in February 364, at which point he was succeeded by Valentinian I.123