326

Year 326 (CCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Constantinus (or, less frequently, year 1079 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 326 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.

326 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	326 CCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1079
Assyrian calendar	5076
Balinese saka calendar	247–248
Bengali calendar	−268 – −267
Berber calendar	1276
Buddhist calendar	870
Burmese calendar	−312
Byzantine calendar	5834–5835
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3023 or 2816     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3024 or 2817
Coptic calendar	42–43
Discordian calendar	1492
Ethiopian calendar	318–319
Hebrew calendar	4086–4087
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	382–383
- Shaka Samvat	247–248
- Kali Yuga	3426–3427
Holocene calendar	10326
Iranian calendar	296 BP – 295 BP
Islamic calendar	305 BH – 304 BH
Javanese calendar	207–208
Julian calendar	326 CCCXXVI
Korean calendar	2659
Minguo calendar	1586 before ROC 民前1586年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1142
Seleucid era	637/638 AG
Thai solar calendar	868–869
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 452 or 71 or −701     — to — མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 453 or 72 or −700

Coin of Crispus Caesar (c. 303–326)

Events

By place

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 orders his older son, Crispus Caesar, to be executed, possibly on charges of adultery.^[1] Later, Fausta, second wife of Constantine I, is also executed by being suffocated or boiled in a hot bath.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• September 14 (traditional date) – Helena, mother of Constantine I, discovers the so-called True Cross and the Holy Sepulchre (Jesus's tomb) in Jerusalem. On her pilgrimage, which begins about this year, she pauses on the Aegean island of Patmos, where she is said to found the church of Panagia Ekatontapiliani.
• Helena tells Constantine that he must atone for executing his son and wife by building churches, and at about this date construction begins on Old St. Peter's Basilica, the first church on the traditional site of Saint Peter's tomb in Rome, and on the basilica of Golgotha on Calvary outside Jerusalem. He also commissions construction of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (dedicated 339).
• Christianity is introduced to the Kingdom of Iberia (modern-day Georgia) by Saint Nino (approximate date).

Births

• Constantius Gallus, Roman consul and statesman (d. 354)
• Murong Chui (or Daoming), Chinese general (d. 396)
• Procopius, Roman general and usurper (executed 366) (approximate date)

Deaths

• Flavius Julius Crispus, son of Constantine I (b. 303)
• Flavia Maxima Fausta, Roman empress (b. 289)
• Licinius II, Roman consul and caesar (b. 315)
• Liu (or Xianlie), Chinese empress of Han Zhao