300
RULERS & ROYALTY: Diocletian and Maximian are co-Emperors of the Roman Empire – Marcellinus is the 29th pope/bishop of Rome – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
301
RULERS & ROYALTY: Diocletian and Maximian are co-Emperors of the Roman Empire – Marcellinus is the 29th pope/bishop of Rome – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
302
RULERS & ROYALTY: Diocletian and Maximian are co-Emperors of the Roman Empire – Marcellinus is the 29th pope/bishop of Rome – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
303
RULERS & ROYALTY: Diocletian and Maximian are co-Emperors of the Roman Empire – Marcellinus is the 29th pope/bishop of Rome – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
A Great Persecution of Christians is launched by Emperors Diocletian and Galerius (Roman Empire, pg. 430)
304
RULERS & ROYALTY: Diocletian and Maximian are co-Emperors of the Roman Empire – Pope Marcellinus dies and isn't succeeded until 308 – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
305
RULERS & ROYALTY: Maximinus Daia becomes Roman Emperor (reigning as Caesar), Galerius is also emperor (reigning as Augustus) – No pope until 308 – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
306
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is proclaimed Roman Emperor in York, England by his troops (he is co-ruler with Galerius who is reigning as Augustus) – No pope until 308 – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
307
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is Roman Emperor (reigning as Augustus) and Galerius is co-reigning with him (also as Augustus) – No pope until 308 – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
308
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is Roman Emperor (reigning as Augustus) and Galerius is co-reigning with him (also as Augustus) – Marcellus I becomes pope/bishop of Rome – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
309
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is Roman Emperor (reigning as Augustus) and Galerius is co-reigning with him (also as Augustus)
310
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is Roman Emperor (reigning as Augustus) and Galerius is co-reigning with him (also as Augustus)
The great Gaulish intellectual Decimus Magnus Ausonius is born to a physician of Burdigala in Aquitaine (modern-day Bordeaux, France); He will become tutor to Gratian, the future Roman Emperor, and eventually be promoted to consul in 379; He is "nominally Christian, but without any deeply committed feeling," and is "from an educated Celtic family which would have been of the Druidic caste before Roman proscription" (The Druids, Pg. 17)
311
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is Roman Emperor (reigning as Augustus) and Galerius' co-reign with him ends, Maximinus Daia is now co-reigning with him (as Augustus)
Since Christians keep withstanding Galerius’s persecution—many of them going to their deaths—Galerius rescinds his edicts and asks Christians to pray, too, for the empire (Roman Empire, Pg. 431)
312
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is Roman Emperor (reigning as Augustus) and Maximinus Daia is co-reigning with him (as Augustus)
Constantine "The Great" converts to Christianity and marches on Rome
313
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is now the sole ruler of the Roman Empire
Constantine "The Great" issues the Edict of Milan, which states that neither Christians, nor people of any other religion can be persecuted for their beliefs
314
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I becomes the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
Eusebius becomes bishop of Caesarea Martima
Three bishops from Britain attend a church council at Arles (one of them was from York, England) in southern France (first confirmation that Christianity had spread to Britain), Roman Emperor Constantine also attends (Church History in Plain Language, pg. 31)
315
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
316
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
317
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
318
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
319
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
320
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
321
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
322
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
323
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire – Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
324
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire / Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
Constantine "The Great" founds Constantinople (originally a Greek town named Byzantium)
325
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire / Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
Constantine "The Great" calls the First Council of Nicaea
326
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire / Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
Roman Emperor Constantine builds the Church of Holy Sepulcher, then he and his mother Helena build the Church of the Nativity over the traditional site of Jesus’ birth (a cave near Bethlehem); Many of these building projects were possible because he was despoiling the pagan temples of their treasuries and precious metals
Emperor Constantine bans gladiatorial games though they persist into the early 400's (The Inheritance of Rome, Pg. 21)
327
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire / Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
328
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire / Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome
329
RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire / Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome