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Roman Empire

• April 28 - Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnentius. He address the Senate and the Roman people.
• August 25 - Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg, driving the barbarians back behind the Rhine.
• The Imperial Library of Constantinople is founded.
• Ammianus Marcellinus describes the Pantheon as being "rounded like the boundary of the horizon and vaulted with a beautiful loftiness".
• Winter - Constantius II receives ambassadors from the Persian Empire. They demand that Rome restore the lands surrendered by King Narseh.

  Asia

• The reign of Fú Jiān, the emperor of Former Qin, commences in China.
• The Alans rout the Hun army in Western Asia.

  Ireland

• Saran, King of Ulster, is overthrown.

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Religion

• Late in the year Pope Liberius travels to Sirmium and agrees to sign documents that effectively undo the Nicene Creed and to sever his relationship with the former Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is replaced as bishop of Alexandria by his Arian opponent George of Cappadocia.
• At about this date, the relics of St Andrew the Apostle are taken from Patras to Constantinople by order of the Emperor Constantius II, and deposited in the Church of the Holy Apostles.
• At about this date, Basil of Caesarea visits Egypt.

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Deaths

• Fu Sheng, emperor of the Chinese Di state Former Qin