Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

June 19

June 19 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 118 BC to AD 325. Together, the entries below connect this calendar date with different moments in the ancient Greek world through historical and documentary evidence.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. 118 BC

    Life on This Day

    Ptolemaic Egypt Law & Civic Life High

    A Loan of One Hundred Twenty Artabas of Barley Is Repaid

    On June 19, 118 BC, a Greek deed recorded repayment of a loan of 120 artabas of barley.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • British Library Papyrus 669

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Papyri Collection catalogue

    Public links

  2. AD 325

    Event That Shaped History

    Nicaea, Bithynia Religion Reconstructed

    The Nicene Creed Is Formally Ratified

    A reconstructed conciliar chronology places the formal ratification of the Nicene Creed on June 19, AD 325 during the Council of Nicaea.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • Creed of the Synod of Nicaea
    • Later conciliar records

    Modern scholarship

    • William G. Rusch, The Trinitarian Controversy

    Public links