Holy Roman Empire, the—the Western part of the Roman Empire as revived by Charlemagne in A.D. 800:
- Francis II put an end to the Holy Roman Empire by his abdication in 1806.
Roman Empire, the—that established by Augustus in 27 B.C. and divided by Theodosius in A.D. 395 into the Western or Latin and Eastern or Greek Empire:
- Christianity floated into the Roman Empire on the wave of credulity.