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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

• November 20 — Diocletian becomes Emperor. The Tetrarchy starts.
• The Bagaudae in Gaul revolt against the Romans.

By Topic

Religion

• Patriarch Rufinus I succeeds Patriarch Dometius as Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Year 1 of the Coptic calendar (or 285).

Births

• Ge Hong, Chinese Daoist philosopher, poet, alchemist, government official, and biographer (d. 364)
• Emperor Huai of Jin, emperor of the Jin Dynasty

Deaths

• November — Numerian, Roman emperor
• Diophantus, Greek mathematician (approximate date)
• Sun Hao, final emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu
• Xin Xianying
• Zhang Jiao

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