Events While Constantine was campaigning against the Bructeri, Maximian attempted to make himself emperor at Arles. ... For the band, see 311 (band), for the number see 311 (number) Events June 15 - Licinius issues his own Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in his own part of the Roman Empire. ... Events October 28 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine defeats Maxentius in the fight to become emperor of Rome. ... For other uses, see 313 (number). ... Events Eusebius becomes bishop of Caesarea (approximate date). ... Events Huns sack Changan, capital of the Chinese Western Jin Dynasty. ... Events Jin Yuan Di succeeds Jin Min Di; end of the western and beginning of the eastern Jin Dynasty King Marian II of Iberia declares Christianity the official state religion Births February _ Constantine II, Roman Emperor Deaths Categories: 317 ... Events Gregory the Illuminator appoints his son Aristax as successor in the Patriarchate of Armenia. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century Decades: 230s - 240s - 250s - 260s - 270s - 280s - 290s - 300s - 310s - 320s - 330s Years: 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 Significant people Diocletian, Roman Emperor Maximian, Roman Emperor Categories: 280s ... Centuries: 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century Decades: 240s - 250s - 260s - 270s - 280s - 290s - 300s - 310s - 320s - 330s - 340s Years: 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 Significant people Diocletian, Roman Emperor Maximian, Roman Emperor Categories: 290s ... Centuries: 3rd century - 4th century - 5th century Decades: 250s - 260s - 270s - 280s - 290s - 300s - 310s - 320s - 330s - 340s - 350s 290 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 Significant people Diocletian, Roman Emperor Maximian, Roman Emperor Categories: 300s ... Centuries: 3rd century - 4th century - 5th century Decades: 250s - 260s _ 270s - 290s - 300s - 310s - 320s - 330s - 340s - 350s - 360s Years: 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 Significant people Constantine, Roman Emperor Licinius, Roman Emperor Maximinus, Roman Emperor Categories: 310s ... Centuries: 3rd century - 4th century - 5th century Decades: 270s - 280s - 290s - 300s - 310s - 320s - 330s - 340s - 350s - 360s - 370s Years: 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 Events Constantine I of the Roman Empire starts legislating Christian beliefs into civil law. ... Centuries: 3rd century - 4th century - 5th century Decades: 280s - 290s - 300s - 310s - 320s - 330s - 340s - 350s - 360s - 370s - 380s Years: 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 Events Significant People Constantine I Constantine II Constantius II Constans Categories: 330s ... Centuries: 3rd century - 4th century - 5th century Decades: 290s - 300s - 310s - 320s - 330s - 340s - 350s - 360s - 370s - 380s - 390s Years: 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 Events Ulfilas missionary to the Goths Significant People Constans, Roman Emperor Constantius II, Roman Emperor Categories: 340s ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... // Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. ... (3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ... // Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ...

Events

• August 30 - Council of Arles, which confirmed the pronouncement of Donatism as a schism, and passed other canons.
• Synod of Ancyra: consulting a magician is declared a sin earning five years of penance.
• Pope Silvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.
• Alexander becomes Bishop of Byzantium.

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... The Donatists (founded by the Berber christian Donatus) were followers of a belief considered a heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. ... The word schism, from the Greek σχισμα, schisma (from σχιζω, schizo, to split), means a division or a split, usually in an organization. ... In Western culture, canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. ... An important ecclesiastical synod was held at Ancyra, the seat of the Roman administration for the province of Galatia, in 314. ... The ancient symbol of the pentagram is often used as a symbol for magic. ... Sin has been a term most usually used in a religious context, and today describes any lack of conformity to the will of God; especially, any willful disregard for the norms revealed by God is a sin. ... Silvester I (or Sylvester) was pope from January 314 to December 31, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. ... Miltiades, or Melchiades (other forms of the name being Meltiades, Melciades, Milciades, and Miltides) was Pope from July 10, 310 or 311 to January 10 or 11, 314. ... Saint Alexander (between 237 and 244 - 337), bishop of Byzantium and first bishop of Constantinople until his death, as the city was then called (Theod. ... Bishops of Byzantium (until 325) St. ...

Births

• Libanius, Greek Sophist

Libanius (Greek Libanios) (ca 314 AD - ca 394) was a Greek-speaking teacher of rhetoric of the later Roman Empire, an educated pagan of the Sophist school in an Empire that was turning aggressively Christian and publicly burned its own heritage and closed the academies. ... Sophism was originally a term for the techniques taught by a highly respected group of philosophy and rhetoric teachers in ancient Greece. ...

Deaths

• January 11 - Pope Miltiades
• Maximinus, Roman Emperor
• Saint Metrophanes, Bishop of Byzantium