Timeline of Portuguese History - 4th Century

4th Century

Year Date Event
303 Emperor Diocletian orders the persecution of Christians.
305 Diocletian and Maximian abdicated. Constantius and Galerius becomes Augusti. Maximinus is appointed Caesar in the east and Severus in the west. Partition of the Roman Empire. Multiplication of Emperors.
318 Excommunication of Arius.
325 The Ecumenical Council of Nicaea.
366 Damasus, son of Antonius and Laurentia, born in the Conventus Bracarensis of Gallaecia (near the modern city of GuimarĂ£es), is the reigning Pope under the name Damasus I. (to 383)
385 Paulus Orosius, historian, theologian and disciple of St. Augustine, is probably born in Braga.
388 Paternus becomes bishop of the Episcopal see of Braga.

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