This article is about the year 315. For the number, see 315 (number). For other uses, see 315 (disambiguation).
Arch of Constantine (Rome)
315 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 315
CCCXV
Ab urbe condita 1068
Assyrian calendar 5065
Balinese saka calendar 236–237
Bengali calendar −279 – −278
Berber calendar 1265
Buddhist calendar 859
Burmese calendar −323
Byzantine calendar 5823–5824
Chinese calendar 甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
3012 or 2805
    — to —
乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
3013 or 2806
Coptic calendar 31–32
Discordian calendar 1481
Ethiopian calendar 307–308
Hebrew calendar 4075–4076
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 371–372
 - Shaka Samvat 236–237
 - Kali Yuga 3415–3416
Holocene calendar 10315
Iranian calendar 307 BP – 306 BP
Islamic calendar 316 BH – 315 BH
Javanese calendar 195–196
Julian calendar 315
CCCXV
Korean calendar 2648
Minguo calendar 1597 before ROC
民前1597年
Nanakshahi calendar −1153
Seleucid era 626/627 AG
Thai solar calendar 857–858
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dog)
441 or 60 or −712
    — to —
ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Boar)
442 or 61 or −711

Year 315 (CCCXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Licinianus (or, less frequently, year 1068 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 315 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

  • Constantine the Great and co-emperor Licinius battle the Sarmates, the Goths and the Carpians along the Danube. Constantine leads a punitive expedition into Dacia and reestablishes the Roman fortifications of the frontier.
  • July 25 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. As part of the ceremony Constantine is expected to make a sacrifice to Rome's traditional gods, but he refuses to do so.
  • Constantine I dedicates the Basilica of Maxentius and installs a large statue of himself inside it.
  • Crucifixion is abolished as punishment in the Roman Empire.
  • A program of assistance to the poor is established in the Roman Empire.
  • Immense baths are constructed in Augusta Treverorum (modern-day Trier).

By topic

Religion

  • Eusebius becomes bishop of Caesarea (approximate date).
  • The lamb becomes the symbol of Jesus in Christian art.


Births

  • Flavius Hannibalianus, ruler of Armenia and Pontus (d. 337)
  • Hilary of Poitiers, Christian bishop and Doctor of the Church[1]
  • Himerius, Greek sophist and rhetorician (approximate date)
  • Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, Roman politician (d. 384)

Deaths

Saint Valerius of Saragossa
Saint Maternus of Cologne
  • September 14 – Maternus of Cologne, bishop of Trier
  • Du Tao (or Jingwen), Chinese general and rebel leader
  • Galeria Valeria, Roman empress and wife of Galerius
  • Prisca, Roman empress and wife of Diocletian (b. 247)
  • Valerius of Saragossa, Christian bishop and martyr

References

  1. ^ "Saint Hilary of Poitiers - bishop of Poitiers". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 November 2017.