310

This article is about the year 310. For the number, see 310 (number). For other uses, see 310 (disambiguation).

Year 310 (CCCX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Andronicus and Probus (or, less frequently, year 1063 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 310 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.

310 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	310 CCCX
Ab urbe condita	1063
Assyrian calendar	5060
Balinese saka calendar	231–232
Bengali calendar	−284 – −283
Berber calendar	1260
Buddhist calendar	854
Burmese calendar	−328
Byzantine calendar	5818–5819
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3007 or 2800     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3008 or 2801
Coptic calendar	26–27
Discordian calendar	1476
Ethiopian calendar	302–303
Hebrew calendar	4070–4071
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	366–367
- Shaka Samvat	231–232
- Kali Yuga	3410–3411
Holocene calendar	10310
Iranian calendar	312 BP – 311 BP
Islamic calendar	322 BH – 321 BH
Javanese calendar	190–191
Julian calendar	310 CCCX
Korean calendar	2643
Minguo calendar	1602 before ROC 民前1602年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1158
Seleucid era	621/622 AG
Thai solar calendar	852–853
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 436 or 55 or −717     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 437 or 56 or −716

King Shapur II the Great

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Maximian, retired emperor, rebels against Constantine I in Arles while the latter is campaigning against the Franks.
• Maximinus Daza, caesar under Emperor Galerius, is acclaimed augustus by his troops. Galerius is forced to recognize him as co-ruler of the East. The Roman Empire is thus divided between seven simultaneous emperors: Galerius (East), Maximinus II (East), Licinius (Middle), Constantine I (West), Maximian (West), Maxentius (Italy), and Domitius Alexander (Africa).
• July – Maximian flees to Marseille where he is besieged and surrenders. Constantine encourages his suicide and Maximian, age 60, hangs himself. Emperor Maxentius condemns the killing of his father.
• Licinius campaigns with success against the Carpi.^[1]

Asia

• Haelhae becomes the king of the Korean kingdom of Silla.^[2]

By topic

Commerce

• At Trier, Constantine orders the minting of a new coin, the solidus, in an effort to offset the declining value of the denarius and bring stability to the imperial currency by restoring a gold standard. The solidus (later known as the bezant) will be minted in the Byzantine Empire without change in weight or purity until the 10th century.

Religion

• April 18 – Pope Eusebius succeeds Pope Marcellus I as the 31st pope, but is banished on August 17 by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, perhaps from a hunger strike.

Births

• Ausonius, Roman poet and rhetorician (d. 395)
• Epiphanius of Salamis, Church Father (d. 403)
• Wulfila, Gothic bishop and missionary (d. 383)

Deaths

Emperor Maximian

Pope Eusebius

• August 17 – Eusebius, bishop of Rome
• July – Maximian, Roman emperor (b. c. 250)
• Dan, Chinese empress of Xiongnu (or Han-Zhao)
• Domnina, Berenice, and Prosdoce, Christian martyrs
• Liu He, Chinese emperor of Xiongnu (or Han-Zhao)
• Liu Yuan, Chinese emperor of Xiongnu (or Han-Zhao)
• Luo Shang, Chinese general of the Jin dynasty (266–420)
• Emperor Ōjin of Japan, according to legend.