11 May: Dedication of Constantinople.
The burnt column, erected at Constantinople by Constantine, near the forum bearing his name. It is formed of eight blocks of porphryr, and the joints covered by bands of laurel leaves, in bronze.
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Great cisterns, constructed by Constantine, near the Church of St. Sophia, 336 feet long, 182 wide; the latter supported on 336 marble columns, in twelve rows in breadth, and 28 in length.
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