318
This article is about the year 318. For the number, see 318 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 3rd century – 4th century – 5th century |
| Decades: | 280s 290s 300s – 310s – 320s 330s 340s |
| Years: | 315 316 317 – 318 – 319 320 321 |
| 318 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 318 CCCXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1071 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5068 |
| Bengali calendar | −275 |
| Berber calendar | 1268 |
| Buddhist calendar | 862 |
| Burmese calendar | −320 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5826–5827 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3014 or 2954 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3015 or 2955 |
| Coptic calendar | 34–35 |
| Discordian calendar | 1484 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 310–311 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4078–4079 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 374–375 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 240–241 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3419–3420 |
| Holocene calendar | 10318 |
| Iranian calendar | 304 BP – 303 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 313 BH – 312 BH |
| Julian calendar | 318 CCCXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 2651 |
| Minguo calendar | 1594 before ROC 民前1594年 |
| Seleucid era | 629/630 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 860–861 |
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Year 318 (CCCXVIII) was a common 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 Licinianus and Crispus (or, less frequently, year 1071 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 318 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.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Emperor Constantine the Great gives the ancient Roman town Drepana (Asia Minor) the name Helenopolis, after his mother Helena, and builds a church in honour of the martyr St. Lucian.
- Emperor Constantine the Great given the title Brittanicus Maximus, given for successful engagements in Britain. The details of the battles which are unknown.
China
- The Chinese Empire loses its territories to the north of the Yangtze River, to the benefit of the Xiongnu and the Xianbei. The Former Zhao state is proclaimed; Liu Can and the state ruling family at Pingyang is executed by a coup d'état of Jin Zhun, who is in turn overthrown by Shi Le and Liu Yao.
- Liu Yao becomes the new emperor of Han Zhao and moves his capital to Chang'an.
By topic
Religion
- Gregory the Illuminator appoints his son Aristax as successor in the patriarchate of Armenia.
Births
- Empress Liu, wife of emperor Shi Hu (d. 349)
Deaths
- Fan Changsheng, Chinese taoist
- Jin Mindi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (murdered)
- Jin Zhun, official of the Xiongnu state Han Zhao
- Liu Can, emperor of the Xiongnu state
- Liu Cong, emperor of the Xiongnu state