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296| 200–700 | Central America [statistics and demography] | The Zapotec site of Monte Albán in Central America is at its peak in this period. It may have had 30,000 or more inhabitants. It is the centre of a complex of public buildings, temples, and dwellings that cover 40 sq km/15 sq mi. | | 294–297 | Roman Empire [wars] | Galerius, Roman Caesar in the East, proves his worth in campaigning in the Danubian provinces, fighting the Goths, Marcomanni, Sarmatians, Bastarnians, and Carpi, but becomes embittered when he has to follow up with the unspectacular job of land reclamation and repopulation, moving the entire tribe of the Carpi to settlements within the Roman Empire. | | 296–297 | Egypt, Roman Empire [wars] | Rebellion again breaks out in Egypt and the Eastern Roman emperor Diocletian goes there in person with the young Constantine I the Great (later the first Christian emperor of Rome) on his staff. He besieges Alexandria and deposes the city's ‘emperor’, Achilleus. | | 296 | UK, Roman Empire [political events] | After two years of preparation, Constantius Chlorus, Roman Caesar of the West, invades Britain. One squadron of his fleet, led by his Praetorian prefect Asclepiodotus, lands near the Isle of Wight and defeats Allectus in Hampshire. The other Roman squadron, under Constantius, sails up the River Thames to London just in time to prevent the sack of the city by the remains of Allectus' army. He rebuilds at Eboracum (York), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), fortifies the ‘Saxon Shore’ (the coastline from the Wash to the Isle of Wight), and does much to restore prosperity to Britain. |
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