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== Events ==
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===Roman Empire===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Crispus|Flavius Julius Crispus Caesar]], the sons of the Emperor Constantine and his expected heir, and  [[Constantine II (emperor)|Flavius Claudius Constantinus]] begin their one year terms as the new [[Roman consul]]s.
* [[June]] &ndash; The earliest known use of the Greek word ''monachós'' to refer to a [[monk]] is made in a petition filed in Egypt by a man named Aurelius Isidorus, a man from the town of Karanis in Egypt.<ref>"The Earliest Use of Monachos for 'Monk' and the Origins of Monasticism", by Edwin A. Judge, in  ''Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum'' 20 (1977): 72–89.</ref>
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Battle of Adrianople (324)|Battle of Adrianople]]: Emperor [[Constantine the Great]] defeats his rival [[Licinius]] near [[Edirne|Adrianople]], forcing him to retreat to [[Byzantium]]. Constantine then invades [[Thrace]] with a [[Visigoths|Visigothic]] force and raids the countryside.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Zosimus, New History. London: Green and Chaplin (1814). Book 2. |url=https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/zosimus02_book2.htm |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=www.tertullian.org}}</ref> 
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Hellespont]]: [[Crispus|Flavius Julius Crispus]], the designated heir of his father Constantine, destroys the naval fleet of Licinius in the [[Dardanelles]], allowing Constantine to cross over the [[Bosphorus]] into Asian provinces. Byzantium is besieged and Licinius assembles a second military force, under his newly elevated co-emperor [[Martinian (Sextus Martinianus)|Martinian]] at [[Lampsacus]] (modern-day [[Lapseki]]).<ref name=":0" />
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Battle of Chrysopolis]]: Constantine I definitively defeats Licinius at [[Üsküdar|Chrysopolis]], and becomes sole Emperor, thus ending the period of the [[Tetrarchy]]. Licinius escapes and gathers around 30,000 of his surviving troops at [[Nicomedia]].<ref name=":0" /> Thus, the [[Civil wars of the Tetrarchy]], which began in [[306]], end with Constantine ruling as sole Emperor.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; Emperor Constantine declares his son, [[Constantius II|Flavius Julius Constantius]], to the rank of [[Caesar (title)|caesar]], designating Flavius as his successor. Flavius will ascend the throne as Constantine the Second in [[337]] AD.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |year=1971 |first=A.H.M. |author2=J.R. Martindale |author3=J. Morris |title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Volume 1: A.D. 260–395 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=226 |isbn=0-521-07233-6 |url={{googlebooks|uOHw4idqAeYC|plainurl=y}} |name-list-style=amp |author-link=A. H. M. Jones |author-link2=John Robert Martindale |author-link3=John Morris (historian) |ref={{sfnref|Jones|Martindale|Morris}} }}</ref>
*November 9 &ndash; Dedication of the [[Lateran Basilica]] in Rome.<ref>Tarantino, V. J., [https://wherepeteris.com/the-wounded-stag/ The Wounded Stag], published on 9 November 2024, accessed on 1 January 2025</ref>
* [[December 19]] &ndash; Licinius abdicates his position as Emperor. He is pardoned by Constantine I as a result of the supplication of his wife [[Flavia Julia Constantia|Constantia]] (who is Constantine's halfsister), and banished to [[Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] as a private citizen.
*(Date unknown) The Roman Emperor Constantine I seizes the Byzantine Empire's capital, [[Byzantium]], and commences work on rebuilding the city as the Eastern Empire's capital, which he will inaugurate as [[Constantinople]] in [[330]]. 
*Constantine reorganises the [[Late Roman army|Roman army]] in smaller units classified into three grades: ''[[Palatini (Roman military)|palatini]]'', (imperial escort armies); ''[[comitatenses]]'', (forces based in frontier provinces) and ''[[limitanei]]'' ([[Auxiliaries (Roman military)|auxilia]] border troops).<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/the-oxfrod-dictionary-of-byzantium-vol.-1-oup-1991 |title=The Oxford Dictionary Of Byzantium Volume 1 |year=1991 |isbn=9780195187922 |pages=508}}</ref>

===China===
*[[August 9]] &ndash; (''guiyou'' day of the 7th month of the 2nd year of the Tai'ning era) In [[Jin dynasty (266–420)|Jin dynasty]] China, the rebel warlord [[Wang Dun]] succumbs to illness as the armies of the [[Emperor Ming of Jin]] are approaching his camp.<ref>[[Fang Xuanling]], ''The Book of Jin'' (Tongchuan, [[684]])</ref></onlyinclude>