326

Year 326 (CCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (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 Constantinus (or, less frequently, year 1079 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 326 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
326 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar326
CCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita1079
Assyrian calendar5076
Balinese saka calendar247–248
Bengali calendar−267
Berber calendar1276
Buddhist calendar870
Burmese calendar−312
Byzantine calendar5834–5835
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3022 or 2962
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3023 or 2963
Coptic calendar42–43
Discordian calendar1492
Ethiopian calendar318–319
Hebrew calendar4086–4087
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat382–383
 - Shaka Samvat247–248
 - Kali Yuga3426–3427
Holocene calendar10326
Iranian calendar296 BP – 295 BP
Islamic calendar305 BH – 304 BH
Javanese calendar207–208
Julian calendar326
CCCXXVI
Korean calendar2659
Minguo calendar1586 before ROC
民前1586年
Nanakshahi calendar−1142
Seleucid era637/638 AG
Thai solar calendar868–869
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
452 or 71 or −701
     to 
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
453 or 72 or −700
Coin of Crispus Caesar (c. 303–326)

Events

Roman Empire

  • Emperor Constantine the Great travels to Rome to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his accession to power, but while en route at Pola he orders his older son, Crispus Caesar, to be executed, possibly on charges of adultery. Later, Fausta, second wife of Constantine I, is also executed by being suffocated in a hot bath.
  • Constantine I founds Constantinople and incorporates Byzantium into the new capital. He reorganises the Roman army in smaller units classified into three grades: palatini, (imperial escort armies); comitatenses, (forces based in frontier provinces) and limitanei (auxilia border troops).
  • Constantine I promulgates laws against the prostitution of maidservants, and for the humanization of prisons.

Art

Religion

  • September 14 (traditional date) Helena, mother of Constantine I, discovers the so-called True Cross and the Holy Sepulchre (Jesus's tomb) in Jerusalem. On her pilgrimage, she pauses on the Aegean island of Patmos, where she is said to found the church of Panagia Ekatontapiliani.
  • Helena tells Constantine that he must atone for executing his son and wife by building churches, and at about this date construction begins on Old St. Peter's Basilica, the first church on the traditional site of Saint Peter's tomb in Rome, and on the basilica of Golgotha on Calvary outside Jerusalem.
  • Christianity is introduced to the Kingdom of Iberia (modern-day Georgia) by Saint Nino (approximate date).

Births

  • Constantius Gallus, Roman consul and statesman (d. 354)
  • Murong Chui (or Daoming), Chinese general (d. 396)

Deaths

  • Flavius Julius Crispus, son of Constantine I (b. 303)
  • Flavia Maxima Fausta, Roman empress (b. 289)
  • Licinius II, Roman consul and caesar (b. 315)
  • Liu (or Xianlie), Chinese empress of Han Zhao
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