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Year 318 (CCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Licinianus and Crispus (or, less frequently, year 1071 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 318 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor
  Helena, and builds a church in honour of the martyr St. Lucian
  .
• Constantine the Great is given the title Brittanicus Maximus, for successful engagements in Britain.

Asia

• The
  Former Zhao state is proclaimed; Liu Can and the state ruling family at Pingyang is executed in a coup d'état by Jin Zhun, who is in turn overthrown by Shi Le and Liu Yao
  .
• Liu Yao becomes the new emperor of Han-Zhao and moves his capital to Chang'an.

By topic

Religion

• Gregory the Illuminator appoints his son Aristax as successor in the patriarchate of Armenia.

Births

• Liu, Chinese empress and wife of Shi Hu (d. 349)

Deaths

• February 7 – Min of Jin, Chinese emperor (b. 300)
• Liu Cong
  , Chinese emperor
• Fan Changsheng, Chinese religious leader
• Jin Zhun, Chinese official and chancellor
• Liu Can (or Shiguang), Chinese emperor
• Liu Kun, Chinese general and poet (b. 270)
• harlot
  and martyr

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