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Contents

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

★ November 20 — Diocletian becomes Emperor. Tetrarchy starts.

★ The Bagaudae in Gaul revolt against the Romans.

By Topic

Religion

★ Patriarch Rufinus I succeeds Patriarch Dometius as Patriarch of Constantinople

★ Year 1 of the Coptic calendar (or 285)

Births

★ Ge Hong, Chinese Daoist philosopher, poet, alchemist, government official, and biographer (d. 364)

★ Emperor Huai of Jin, emperor of the Jin Dynasty

Deaths

★ November — Numerian, Roman emperor

★ Diophantus, Greek mathematician (approximate date)

★ Sun Hao, final emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu

★ Xin Xianying

★ Zhang Jiao