4th century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

Events

• Definitive declaration of biblical canon: Council of Carthage
• Demotic is replaced by Greek
• Constantine I ends persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. Christianity is made the official religion of the Empire. The Roman Empire's seat of government is moved to Constantinople.
• Destruction of the Roman Army at the Battle of Adrianople in 378

• Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan
• Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman Historian
• Emperor Constantine I
• Saint Martin of Tours

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