Centuries: 3rd century - 4th century - 5th century
Events
Diocletian launched the last major persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire; Hierocles was said to have been the instigator of the fierce persecution of the Christians under February 24 - Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
Sassanid Shah Narseh.
Births
Deaths
April 23 - Saint George, soldier of the Roman Empire and later Christian martyr.
As the popularity of these new TB-303 clones grew for the smaller companies the original TB-303 manufacturer Roland Corporation finally took notice of this market trend in 1996 and released their version of the end of all TB-303 clones called the MC-303 Groovebox.
As good as the Roland Corporation tried, their new "303 clone" was almost an entirely new product that had almost nothing to do with the original TB-303 besides some of the sound patches and user layout.
Although it is still in popular use to this day (this may come partly from its flexibility to be 'modded' by users to produce different sounds), its usage has often been frowned upon by more traditionalist music producers, who claim that the software reproduction is an inferior copy of the genuine sound.