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• March 5 — Emperor Julian
  Julian the Apostate
  
  Flavius Claudius Julianus, known also as Julian or Julian the Apostate , was Roman Emperor of the Constantinian dynasty. He was the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and expended much energy during his reign attempting to supplant the growing power of Christianity within the empire with officially revived Religion in ancient Rom...
   moves from Antioch
  Antioch
  
  Antioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the nearer East and was a cradle of gentile hi...
   with an army of 90,000 against the Sassanid Empire
  Sassanid Empire
  
  The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name of the last pre-Islamic Iranian empire. It was one of the two main powers in Western Asia for a period of more than 400 years....
  .
• Perisapora
  Anbar
  
  Anbar was a town in Iraq, at lat. 33 deg. 22' N., long. 43 deg. 49' E, on the east bank of the Euphrates, just south of the Nahr Isa, or Sakhlawieh canal, the northernmost of the canals connecting that river with the Tigris....
   is destroyed by Julian.
• May 29 — Battle of Ctesiphon
  Battle of Ctesiphon (363)
  
  The Battle of Ctesiphon took place on May 29, 363 between the armies of Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate and the Sassanid empire Shapur II of Persia outside the walls of the Persian capital Ctesiphon....
  : Julian arrives under the walls of the Sassanid capital and defeats the Sassanid army of Shapur II of Persia, but is unable to put the city under siege.
• June 16 — The Roman army starts its retreat from the Sassanid Empire, suffering attacks from the Sassanid forces.
• June 26 — Julian is killed in battle. Jovian
  Jovian
  
  Flavius Iovianus, anglicized to Jovian, was a soldier elected Roman Emperor by the army on 27 June 363 upon the death of Emperor Julian the Apostate during his Sassanid Empire campaign....
  , a general, is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
• Nisibis
  Nisibis
  
  Nusaybin is a city in Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey populated by Kurdish people, Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people, Arabs.It is the ancient Mesopotamian city, which Alexander's successors refounded as Antiochia Mygdonia and is mentioned for the first time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus I against the Molon...
   is given to Persia by Jovian.
• Christianity
  Christianity
  
  Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
   is reestablished as the official religion of the Roman Empire
  Roman Empire
  
  The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
   by Jovian.

Europe

• The Huns
  Huns
  
  The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
   reach the Caspian Sea
  Caspian Sea
  
  The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the List of lakes by area or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers ....
  .

Asia

• Petra
  Petra
  
  Petra is an Archaeology site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a Depression among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah , the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba....
   is damaged by an earthquake.

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Religion

• The Council of Laodicea
  Council of Laodicea
  
  The Council of Laodicea was a regional synod of approximately thirty clerics from Asia Minor, that assembled about 363-364 A.D. in Laodicea on the Lycus, Phrygia....
  , which deals with constricting the conduct of church members, is held. The major canon
  Canon law (Catholic Church)
  
  Canon Law, the ecclesiastical law of the Catholic Church, is a fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, a fully articulated legal code and principles of legal interpretation....
   approved by this council is Canon 29, which prohibits resting on the Sabbath (Saturday)
  Shabbat
  
  Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
  , restricting Christian
  Christian
  
  A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
  s to honoring the Lord
  God
  
  God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
   on Sunday.

Births

• Emperor Wu of Liu Song
  Emperor Wu of Liu Song
  
  Emperor Wu of Song , personal name Liu Yu , courtesy name Dexing , nickname Jinu , was the founding emperor of the History of China dynasty Liu Song Dynasty....
  

Deaths

• June 26 — Julian
  Julian the Apostate
  
  Flavius Claudius Julianus, known also as Julian or Julian the Apostate , was Roman Emperor of the Constantinian dynasty. He was the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and expended much energy during his reign attempting to supplant the growing power of Christianity within the empire with officially revived Religion in ancient Rom...
  , Roman Emperor (mortally wounded in battle)
• Zhang Xuanjing
  Zhang Xuanjing
  
  Zhang Xuanjing , courtesy name Yuan'an , formally Duke Jingdao of Xiping or Duke Chong of Xiping was a ruler of the History of China state Former Liang....
  
• Consort Zhou
  Consort Zhou (Cheng)
  
  Consort Zhou was an imperial consort during Jin Dynasty . She was a concubine of Emperor Cheng of Jin. She was favored by him, and she bore him his only two sons -- Sima Pi and Sima Yi ....