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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰(at the beginning of earth - hare己卯)

Era of Diocletian: 36/37 ( the year of November)

Syria: 631/632 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Roman Empire

• March 9 320-323: Forty Roman soldiers who profess to be Christians, are executed in spite of the Edict of Milan, by being naked forced on a frozen lake. You walk as the forty men of Sebaste in history.

Asia

• 320: Chandragupta I establishes the northern Indian Gupta Empire.

Culture and Religion

• The 25th of December is introduced as the birthday of Christ.
• 320: In Northern Europe, a ship is built, whose remains are found 1500 years later in the Nydam bog in Jutland. The so-called Nydam ship can now be seen in Schleswig.

Born

• 320: Constantina, Roman nobles († 354)
• 320: Himerius, Greek rhetorician († 383 )
• 320: Lucius Caecilius Firmianus ( " Lactantius " ), Roman teacher of rhetoric and Father of the Church (c. 250)
• 320: Onophrios the Great, Christian hermit († 400 )
• 320: Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, Roman politician ( † 384 )
• 320: Aurelius Victor, Roman historian († 390 )

• 320-323: Flavius ​​Julius Constans, Roman emperor († 350)