The 4th Century CE | 300s CE |
320s - 306-337 Constantine [W, later all] 307-323 Licinius [E] 324 Constantine begins fortification and adornment of Byzantium. |
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340s - 337-361 Constantius II [E,W, later all] 337-350 Constans [Africa] 342-3 Constantius' promotion of Arianism causes Christians to
slaughter each other in the thousands in Alexandria and Constantinople. Pagan temples are
outlawed thruout empire. Jews taxed and segregated. |
350s 337-361 Constantius II 354 Gallus executed by Constantius for despotic cruelty as Antiochan Governor, (he forced Jews to sell their children into slavery). Julian banished to Athens, where he delights in the study of philosophy. |