319

This article is about the year 319. For other uses, see 319 (disambiguation).

Year 319 (CCCXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Licinius (or, less frequently, year 1072 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 319 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.

319 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	319 CCCXIX
Ab urbe condita	1072
Assyrian calendar	5069
Balinese saka calendar	240–241
Bengali calendar	−275 – −274
Berber calendar	1269
Buddhist calendar	863
Burmese calendar	−319
Byzantine calendar	5827–5828
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3016 or 2809     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3017 or 2810
Coptic calendar	35–36
Discordian calendar	1485
Ethiopian calendar	311–312
Hebrew calendar	4079–4080
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	375–376
- Shaka Samvat	240–241
- Kali Yuga	3419–3420
Holocene calendar	10319
Iranian calendar	303 BP – 302 BP
Islamic calendar	312 BH – 311 BH
Javanese calendar	200–201
Julian calendar	319 CCCXIX
Korean calendar	2652
Minguo calendar	1593 before ROC 民前1593年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1149
Seleucid era	630/631 AG
Thai solar calendar	861–862
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 445 or 64 or −708     — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 446 or 65 or −707

King Chandragupta I and his wife Queen Kumaradevi (Gupta Empire)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Constantine the Great prohibits the separation of the families of slaves, during a change in ownership.^{[citation needed]}

India

• King Chandragupta I succeeds his father Ghatotkacha, as ruler of the Gupta dynasty.

Georgia

• Christianity is introduced in Colchis, present-day Georgia.

By topic

Religion

• Arius travels to Nicomedia at the invitation of Bishop Eusebius, after having been accused of heresy and condemned by Alexander, the Patriarch of Alexandria. This gives rise to the Arian Controversy.

Births

• Murong Jun, Chinese emperor of the Former Yan (d. 360)

Deaths

• Du Zeng, Chinese general and rebel leader
• Ghatotkacha, Indian ruler of the Gupta Empire
• Theodore Stratelates, Greek general and martyr (b. 281)