313

Year 313 (CCCXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Licinianus (or, less frequently, year 1066 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 313 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. This year is notable for ending of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
313 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar313
CCCXIII
Ab urbe condita1066
Assyrian calendar5063
Balinese saka calendar234–235
Bengali calendar−280
Berber calendar1263
Buddhist calendar857
Burmese calendar−325
Byzantine calendar5821–5822
Chinese calendar壬申年 (Water Monkey)
3009 or 2949
     to 
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
3010 or 2950
Coptic calendar29–30
Discordian calendar1479
Ethiopian calendar305–306
Hebrew calendar4073–4074
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat369–370
 - Shaka Samvat234–235
 - Kali Yuga3413–3414
Holocene calendar10313
Iranian calendar309 BP – 308 BP
Islamic calendar319 BH – 318 BH
Javanese calendar193–194
Julian calendar313
CCCXIII
Korean calendar2646
Minguo calendar1599 before ROC
民前1599年
Nanakshahi calendar−1155
Seleucid era624/625 AG
Thai solar calendar855–856
Tibetan calendar阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
439 or 58 or −714
     to 
阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
440 or 59 or −713
Emperor Maximinus Daza (r. 310–313)

Events

Roman Empire

  • At the end of 312 or in early 313, the retired Emperor Diocletian dies in his palace in Split, most likely from natural causes.
  • February: Emperors Constantine I and Licinius convene in Mediolanum (modern Milan). Licinius marries Constantine's half-sister Constantia, and they issue the Edict of Milan. This edict ends the Great Persecution against the Christians and is the first piece of legislation in western history to decree freedom of religion. It also returns property confiscated from Christians.[1] The edict is posted in Nicomedia on June 13.
  • Emperor Maximinus Daza crosses the Bosphorus with an army of 70,000 men and lays siege to Heraclea in Thrace. He captures the city after eight days.
  • Battle of Tzirallum: Licinius defeats his rival Maximinus in Thrace, who then flees to Cilicia. After losing the Cilician Gates to Licinius' forces, Maximinus commits suicide.
  • Licinius conducts a purge of the wider Tetrarchic dynasty. He executes Galerius' son Candidianus, Valerius Severus' son Severianus (whom he accuses of conspiracy), and Maximinus' wife, son and daughter. Diocletian's wife Prisca and daughter Galeria Valeria go into hiding.

Asia

  • March 14 Emperor Huai of Jin is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao). At the imperial new year he and a number of former Jin officials are poisoned. Crown prince Min of Jin, age 13, succeeds, in Chang'an, his uncle Huai of Jin and becomes the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty.
  • Nintoku, the fourth son of Ōjin, becomes the 16th emperor of Japan.

Art and Science

  • Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (or Basilica Nova), in Rome, is finished.

Religion

Births

  • Cyril of Jerusalem, Christian bishop and theologian (d. 386)
  • Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologian (d. 398)
  • Shi Hong, Chinese emperor of the Jie state (d. 334)

Deaths

  • March 14 Huai of Jin, Chinese emperor (b. 284)
  • Achillas (the Great), pope and patriarch of Alexandria
  • Galerius Valerius Maximinus, Roman emperor (b. 270)
  • Guangxian, Chinese empress of the Xiongnu state
  • Zhang Huiguang (or Wuxiao), Chinese empress

References

  1. Frend, W. H. C. (1965). The Early Church. SPCK. p. 137.
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