Emperor Ming's army crushed Wang Dun's vanguard at Yuecheng and beheaded He Kang; Wang Dun died of vexation. (Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals 晉書 卷006 帝紀 太寧2年7月)
In the first month of spring, Wang Dun falsely accused Zhou Song and others and killed them in the army, then sent a military adviser to Wu's Shen Chong to kill all of Zhou Zha's brothers' sons, and attacked Kuaiji; Zhou Zha resisted fiercely and was killed in battle. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 卷093 324년 단락0 제1문)
West Asia (5)
Licinius, defeated in Thrace, withdraws to Chalcedon and makes Martinianus co-emperor, but both are overpowered together. (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus Aur. Vict. Caes. 41.8)
While Licinius is inside Byzantium, Constantine follows, builds an earth rampart and wooden towers, brings siege engines, and surrounds the city. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.47)
Licinius crosses to Chalcedon and makes Martinianus Caesar to resist, but only 30,000 of 130,000 survive the defeat between Chalcedon and the Sacred Cape, and the citizens of Byzantium and Chalcedon open their gates. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.49)
Besieged in Nicomedia, Licinius surrenders, offering up his purple; Constantine kills Martinianus and sends Licinius to Thessalonica, then breaks his oath and has him executed. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.50)
Constantine widens the walls of Byzantium by 15 stadia and builds a palace, hippodrome, forums and temples, and houses for the senators who followed him from Rome. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.52)
Southern Europe (3)
With Licinius camped at Adrianople, Constantine marches from Thessalonica and faces him across the Hebrus, then deceives him with a wooden signal, crosses at a narrow point, cuts down 30,000 and takes the enemy camp. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.47)
In the narrow strait, Abantus's 200 ships crowd in disorder and are badly beaten by Constantine's 80 thirty-oared ships; the next day a south wind wrecks 130 of Licinius's ships and 5,000 men drown. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.48)
Leaving Rome in search of a new capital, Constantine starts walling a site between the Troad and Ilium but changes his mind in favor of Byzantium. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.52)
Changes of power ◆
Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.