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Year 343 is a common year starting on a Saturday.

Events
25 January: Constant is in Bononia, before embarking in Brittany.
February 4: Constant's intervention in Brittany. This intervention is not well known (fight against pirates? Inspection tour ?).
February 18: Constance II is in Antioch.
Spring: Constant returns to Gaul.
9 June-4 July: Constance II is in Hierapolis.
30 June: Constant is in Trier where he meets Athanase of Alexandria during the summer.
Summer: Constance II invades Adiabene (Mesopotamia) and celebrates his triumph in Antioch, taking the title of Adiabenicus, probably at the beginning of the year 344.
Autumn: Opening of the Council of Sardica (Sofia), convened jointly by the Emperors Constant and Constance II and presided over by Ossius de Cordoba; the Arian bishops, minority, leave the assembly to meet in Philippopolis. The Westerners re-enter Athanase of Alexandria and Marcel of Ancyre and draft a Symbol and 21 disciplinary cannons. The primacy of Rome is established (right of appeal).
An earthquake destroys Salamin in the island of Cyprus.
A 50-year convention is concluded between Rome and Alexandria for the calculation of Easter Day.
Construction of the Basilica of Saint Sophie in Constantinople began.

Death in 343
Grigoris, Catholicos of the Albanian Church.

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