325

This page relates to the year 325 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Beginning of the diffusion of the Christianity in Georgia after the conversion of the king Miriam (towards 325, the date is vague).

In Persian, a synod fixes the text of the Avesta, lost since the conquest of Alexandre and reconstituted starting from oral traditions.

the king of Aksoum Ella-Amida cuts down definitively what remains kingdom of Méroé and sets up a stele commemorating its victory in the ruins of the capital. It is enough powerful to be allowed, in reprisals operations ordered by Constantin against the Blemmyes, its allies of North, to capture close to Adoulis Roman ships. Its reign is completed towards 320 -325.
His/her son minor Ezana succeeds to him, under the regency of his/her mother and reigns until in 390. His/her father leaves him as advisers the two young Christians of Syrian origin, Frumence d' Aksoum and Aedesius, brought at one time in the country by a shipwreck. Those found in Aksoum a Christian community gréco-Syrian woman.

May 20th - June 19th: Constantin I {{er}} convenes and chairs the world ecumenical council of the bishops Nicée, in Asia Mineure. The Council opens the May 20th in the presence of 318 bishops and legates of the Pape Sylvestre Ier.

the four Gospels of Luc, Marc, Matthieu and Jean are only retained. The others known as Gospels apocryphal books are destroyed. Some of them, hidden, will be redécouverts only at the 20th century.
the Arianisme is declared heretic, the identity of nature of God and the Christ having been recognized during the council. Arius is exiled temporarily like Eusèbe de Césarée.
Publication of the Symbol of Nicée which is the text of the Credo .
the Catholic church definitively fixes the festival of Easter at first Sunday after the full moon of Printemps.

May 29th: Law prohibiting to separate in the sales the families from slaves.
June 19th: Enclose Council of Nicée.
October 7th: The social classes of the Lower Empire are solidified and become hereditary. Constantin, by the law of the October 7th 325 and the circular of the October 24th 326, attaches the members of the municipal Senates definitively, the curiales, with their administrative offices and financial; it is also the case for the personnel of the offices (officiales), the soldiers whose wire are compels with the service like their fathers.

Treated Arius on the contradictions of the dogma of the Trinity. Arius affirms that the Christ has only one secondary divinity, that it is not “of comparable nature only the Father”.
Constantin ensures personally the protection of the the Danube. It beats the Goths, the Vandales and the Sarmates.
Constantin points out his mother, holy Helene, and Augusta proclaims it.
the Christian Acilius becomes Préfet of Rome.
Constantin I {{er}} removes the combat of gladiators and interdict to condemn the criminals to the circus games.

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