317

Year 317 (CCCXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gallicanus and Bassus (or, less frequently, year 1070 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 317 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century 4th century 5th century
Decades:	290s 300s 310s 320s 330s
Years:	314 315 316 317 318 319 320

317 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	317 CCCXVII
Ab urbe condita	1070
Assyrian calendar	5067
Balinese saka calendar	238–239
Bengali calendar	−276
Berber calendar	1267
Buddhist calendar	861
Burmese calendar	−321
Byzantine calendar	5825–5826
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3013 or 2953     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3014 or 2954
Coptic calendar	33–34
Discordian calendar	1483
Ethiopian calendar	309–310
Hebrew calendar	4077–4078
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	373–374
- Shaka Samvat	238–239
- Kali Yuga	3417–3418
Holocene calendar	10317
Iranian calendar	305 BP – 304 BP
Islamic calendar	314 BH – 313 BH
Javanese calendar	197–199
Julian calendar	317 CCCXVII
Korean calendar	2650
Minguo calendar	1595 before ROC 民前1595年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1151
Seleucid era	628/629 AG
Thai solar calendar	859–860
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 443 or 62 or −710     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 444 or 63 or −709

Events

Europe

• March 1 – Emperor Constantine the Great and co-emperor Licinius elevate their sons Crispus, Constantine II (being still a baby) and Licinius II to Caesars. After this arrangement Constantine rules the dioceses Pannonia and Macedonia, and establishes his residence at Sirmium, from where he prepares a campaign against the Goths and Sarmatians.
• Licinius recognises Constantine I as senior emperor and executes Valerius Valens.

China

• Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Yuandi flees with remnants of the Jin court and noble families to the south. He succeeds Jin Mindi as first emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and decides to make Jiankang (modern Nanjing) his new capital.
• The earliest historically verified reference to tea is recorded, although the Chinese have been drinking the beverage for centuries.

Births

• August 7 – Constantius II, Roman Emperor (d. 361)
• Fú Jiàn, emperor of the Di state Former Qin (d. 355)
• Saint Martin of Tours, bishop of Tours (d. 397)
• Themistius, statesman, rhetorician and philosopher

Deaths

• Valerius Valens, Roman emperor

References