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King Shapur II the Great

Year 310 (CCCX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Andronicus and Probus (or, less frequently, year 1063 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 310 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events[]

By place[]

Roman Empire[]

• Caesar Maximinus Daza is acclaimed Augustus by his troops. Emperor Galerius decides to recognize both Maximinus and Constantine I as Augustus. In accordance with the fact that Maximinus and Constantine had joined the imperial college before Emperor Licinius, Licinius is moved from second to fourth place in the official hierarchy.
• July 11 – Maximian, retired co-emperor, rebels against Constantine I while the latter is campaigning against the Franks. He attempts to make himself emperor at Arles. Constantine marches his army along the Rhine and embarks his troops at Chalon-sur-Saône. Maximian flees to Marseille where he is besieged and surrenders. Constantine encourages his suicide and Maximian, age 60, hangs himself. Emperor Maxentius condemns the killing of his father.
• Licinius campaigns with success against the Carpi (approximate date).

Asia[]

• Haelhae becomes the king of the Korean kingdom of Silla.^[1]

By topic[]

Commerce[]

• At Trier, Constantine orders the minting of a new coin, the solidus, in an effort to offset the declining value of the denarius and bring stability to the imperial currency by restoring a gold standard. The solidus (later known as the bezant) will be minted in the Byzantine Empire without change in weight or purity until the 10th century.

Religion[]

• April 18 – Pope Eusebius succeeds Pope Marcellus I as the 31st pope, but is banished on August 17 by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, perhaps from a hunger strike.

Births[]

• Ausonius, Roman poet and rhetorician (d. 395)
• Epiphanius of Salamis, Church Father (d. 403)
• Wulfila, Gothic bishop and missionary (d. 383)

Deaths[]

Emperor Maximian

Pope Eusebius

• August 17 – Eusebius, bishop of Rome
• Dan, Chinese empress of Xiongnu (or Han Zhao)
• Domnina, Berenice, and Prosdoce, Christian martyrs
• Liu He, Chinese emperor of Xiongnu (or Han Zhao)
• Liu Yuan, Chinese emperor of Xiongnu (or Han Zhao)
• Luo Shang, Chinese general of the Jin dynasty (266–420)
• Maximian (or Herculius), Roman emperor (b. c. 250)
• Emperor Ōjin of Japan, according to legend.

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