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Diocletian Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

Diocletian, known for his reforms and division of the Roman Empire, serves as a key figure in history and would be a fitting topic for a timeline game.

  • The game challenges players to place events in the correct chronological order, testing their knowledge of historical timelines.
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  • c. 244: Diocletian is born in Salona, Dalmatia
  • November 20, 284: Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by the army in Nicomedia
  • April 1, 286: Diocletian appoints Maximian as co-emperor in Milan
  • July 285: Diocletian defeats Carinus at the Battle of the Margus River
  • 294: Diocletian reforms the Roman currency, introducing the argenteus and aureus coins
  • c. 293: Diocletian divides the Roman Empire into the Western and Eastern regions
  • 303: Diocletian begins persecuting Christians, initiating the Diocletianic Persecution
  • May 1, 305: Diocletian abdicates the throne in favor of Maximian and Constantius Chlorus
  • c. 305: Diocletian retires to his palace in Split, Croatia (Spalatum)
  • December 3, 311: Diocletian dies in Split, Croatia

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