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* 303 – Diocletian, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
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* Reale, G., ( 1990 ), A History of Ancient Philosophy IV: The Schools of the Imperial Age, SUNY Press, pp. 297 – 303.
The Diocletianic Persecution ( 303 – 11 ), the Empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, did not destroy the Empire's Christian community ; indeed, after 324 Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under its first Christian emperor, Constantine.
* 303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang.
Saint George ( c. 275 / 281 – 23 April 303 ) was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a soldier in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr.
Cordite was used initially in the. 303 British, Mark I and II, standard rifle cartridge between 1891 and 1915 ; however, shortages of cordite in World War I led to United States – developed smokeless powders being imported into the UK for use in rifle cartridges.
" The Taming of the Shrew ', Notes & Queries, 22: 2, ( Summer, 1850 ), 345 – 347 ( republished in its entirety in Morris ( 1981 ), 299 – 303 )
303 and Diocletian
Ar., lxiv, and De Syn., xviii ), St Athanasius does not recall from memory being a first hand witness to the onset of the great persecution by the Tetrarchy of Diocletian and Maximian in February 303, for in referring to the events of this period he makes no direct appeal to his own personal recollections, but falls back on tradition.
Constantine had traveled through Palestine at the right hand of Diocletian, and was present at the palace in Nicomedia in 303 and 305.
Similarly, in an edict of the Emperor Diocletian from AD 303, which set maximum prices of goods and services, the price of saddles, halters, and bridles are enumerated, as well as the price of a veterinarian for " cutting the hair and hoof of each animal.
St Caius may not have been martyred: Diocletian ’ s persecution of Christians began in 303 AD, after Caius ’ alleged death, and Diocletian was not immediately hostile to Christianity upon becoming emperor.
Between 303 and 305, Galerius began maneuvering to ensure that he would be in a position to take power from Constantius after the passing of Diocletian.
Although prior to 303 there appeared to be tacit agreement between the Tetrarchs that Constantius ’ s son, Constantine and Maximian ’ s son Maxentius were to be promoted to the rank of Caesar once Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, by the end of 304 Galerius had convinced Diocletian ( who in turn convinced Maximian ) to appoint Galerius ’ s nominees Severus and Maximinus Daia as Caesars.
He died as a martyr during the persecution of Christians by co-ruling Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 303.
The primary disagreement between Donatists and the rest of the early Christian Church was over the treatment of those who renounced their faith during the persecution under the Roman emperor Diocletian ( 303 – 5 ), a disagreement that had implications both for the Church's understanding of the Sacrament of Penance and of the other sacraments in general.
Located on the Campana Road, these catacombs are said to have been the resting place, perhaps temporarily, of Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, Christian Martyrs who died in Rome during the Diocletian persecution ( 302 or 303 ).
Catholic tradition states that Erasmus of Formiae, also known as Saint Elmo, was finally executed by disembowelment in about A. D. 303, after he had suffered extreme forms of torture during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian and Maximian.
As Diocletian had a long reign and remained anti-Christian the government caught Antoninus in 303 AD and he was beheaded ( as had been St. Moritz ) at Travo in Val Trebbia, but not before he had had a chance to establish Christianity in Piacenza.
According to one legend, Saint Expeditus was a Roman centurion in Armenia who became a Christian and was beheaded during the Diocletian Persecution in 303 A. D.
At the age of eight, he was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian in 303.
* Anthimus of Rome ( died 303 ), saint, priest and martyr who died during the persecutions of Diocletian
The city was also the seat of St. Erasmus's martyrdom, by being disemboweled around 303 AD, during the persecutions of Diocletian.
Generally, cultural conflicts led to important periods of book destruction: in 303, the emperor Diocletian ordered the burning of Christian texts.
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