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Heads of State

Year of the Earth horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)

Syria: 609/610 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Spring: The Roman emperor Diocletian leads an army to Egypt and suggests the local usurper Lucius Domitius Domitianus.
  • Roman- Persian wars: The Roman Empire and the Persian Sassanid Empire include the Peace of Nisibis, in which the Persians have five provinces east of the Tigris and northern Mesopotamia cede. Nisibis is intended for single trading city between the two kingdoms. However, the agreement mean for Rome a great prestige, for the Persian side of a correspondingly great humiliation.
  • The main settlement of the Celtic Veneller changes its name in honor of the western Caesars Constantius I. Constantia, now known as Coutances, France.
  • In the battle of Langres ( Lingonae ) between the Alemanni and the Romans under Caesar Constantius, according to Roman, falls over 60,000 Alemanni warrior.
  • A Roman army under Caesar Constantius I. defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Vindonissa and thus secures the Roman Empire's border.

Religion and Culture

  • Zabdas is Patriarch of Jerusalem.
  • In Rome, the construction of the Baths of Diocletian, which are the largest spa center in the city after the Baths of Caracalla begins.

Born

  • 298: Athanasius the Great, Bishop of Alexandria ( † 373)

Died

  • Aurelius Achilles, Roman rival emperor in Egypt
  • Lucius Domitius Domitianus, Roman rival emperor in Egypt
  • Marcellus of Tangier, Christian martyr
  • Cassian of Tangier, Christian martyr
  • 298: Hymen, Patriarch of Jerusalem
  • 298: Julian, Roman Gegenkaiser in Africa
  • Year ( 3rd century )
  • 298
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