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Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope, leaving the papacy vacant

Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope, leaving the papacy vacant

Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope, leaving the papacy vacant

Events Before

  1. Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria

    Athanasius I of Alexandria (296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the...

  2. Newly built city of Constantinople (Byzantium) dedicated to Emperor Constantine the Great, becomes the capital of the Ea

    Newly built city of Constantinople (Byzantium) dedicated to Emperor Constantine the Great, becomes the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire

  3. BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela

    BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela

  4. BC Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus

    The Battle of the Granicus in May 334 BC was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great of Macedon and the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

  5. Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem

    The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Events After

  1. St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

    St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

  2. BC Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securin

    BC Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over Greece and the Aegean Sea

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