320s
320s: events by year
Contents: 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329
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- Constantine I assigns convicts to grind Rome's flour in a move to hold back the rising price of food in an empire whose population has shrunk as a result of plague (see 309 AD).
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Roman Empire
- Emperor Constantine the Great travels to Rome to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his accession to power, but while en route at Pola he gives order to execute his older son, Crispus Caesar, possibly on charges of adultery.
- Fausta, second wife of Constantine I, is also executed. She is suffocated in a hot bath.
- Constantine I founds Constantinople and incorporates Byzantium into the new capital. He 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).
- Constantine I promulgates laws against the prostitution of maidservants, and for the humanization of prisons.
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Religion
- Roman restrictions on joining the clergy are initiated.
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