Diocletian retires to grow cabbages
An emperor abdicates and refuses to come back
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Diocletian was the first Roman emperor to abdicate voluntarily, retiring to a seaside palace. Begged to return, he replied that if they could see the cabbages he had grown with his own hands, they would never ask. The palace is now half of Split's old town.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- c. 320 Pachomius founds the first communal monastery — 15 years later
- c. 330 Aksum adopts Christianity — 25 years later
Asia
- c. 320 Founding of the Gupta Empire — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Constantine the Great (aged 33)
- Anthony the Great (aged 54)