324

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
324 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar324
CCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita1077
Assyrian calendar5074
Balinese saka calendar245–246
Bengali calendar−269
Berber calendar1274
Buddhist calendar868
Burmese calendar−314
Byzantine calendar5832–5833
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
3021 or 2814
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3022 or 2815
Coptic calendar40–41
Discordian calendar1490
Ethiopian calendar316–317
Hebrew calendar4084–4085
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat380–381
 - Shaka Samvat245–246
 - Kali Yuga3424–3425
Holocene calendar10324
Iranian calendar298 BP – 297 BP
Islamic calendar307 BH – 306 BH
Javanese calendar205–206
Julian calendar324
CCCXXIV
Korean calendar2657
Minguo calendar1588 before ROC
民前1588年
Nanakshahi calendar−1144
Seleucid era635/636 AG
Thai solar calendar866–867
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
450 or 69 or −703
    — to —
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
451 or 70 or −702
The northern and eastern frontiers of the Roman Empire in the time of Constantine, with the territories acquired in the course of the thirty years of military campaigns between 306 and 337.

Year 324 (CCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crispus and Constantinus (or, less frequently, year 1077 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 324 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.

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Roman Empire

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  • January 1Flavius Julius Crispus Caesar, the sons of the Emperor Constantine and his expected heir, and Flavius Claudius Constantinus begin their one year terms as the new Roman consuls.
  • June – 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.[1]
  • July 3Battle of Adrianople: Emperor Constantine the Great defeats his rival Licinius near Adrianople, forcing him to retreat to Byzantium. Constantine then invades Thrace with a Visigothic force and raids the countryside.[2]
  • JulyBattle of the Hellespont: 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 at Lampsacus (modern-day Lapseki).[2]
  • September 18Battle of Chrysopolis: Constantine I definitively defeats Licinius at 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.[2] Thus, the Civil wars of the Tetrarchy, which began in 306, end with Constantine ruling as sole Emperor.
  • November 8 – Emperor Constantine declares his son, Flavius Julius Constantius, to the rank of caesar, designating Flavius as his successor. Flavius will ascend the throne as Constantine the Second in 337 AD.Jones, A.H.M.; J.R. Martindale & J. Morris (1971). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Volume 1: A.D. 260–395. Cambridge University Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-521-07233-6.
  • December 19 – Licinius abdicates his position as Emperor. He is pardoned by Constantine I as a result of the supplication of his wife Constantia (who is Constantine's halfsister), and banished to 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 Roman army in smaller units classified into three grades: palatini, (imperial escort armies); comitatenses, (forces based in frontier provinces) and limitanei (auxilia border troops).[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b c "Zosimus, New History. London: Green and Chaplin (1814). Book 2". www.tertullian.org. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  3. ^ The Oxford Dictionary Of Byzantium Volume 1. 1991. p. 508. ISBN 9780195187922.
  4. ^ Fang Xuanling, The Book of Jin (Tongchuan, 684)