383

This article is about the year 383. For the number, see 383 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	350s  360s  370s  – 380s –  390s  400s  410s
Years:	380 381 382 – 383 – 384 385 386

383 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

383 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	383 CCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1136
Assyrian calendar	5133
Bengali calendar	−210
Berber calendar	1333
Buddhist calendar	927
Burmese calendar	−255
Byzantine calendar	5891–5892
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3079 or 3019     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3080 or 3020
Coptic calendar	99–100
Discordian calendar	1549
Ethiopian calendar	375–376
Hebrew calendar	4143–4144
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	439–440
- Shaka Samvat	305–306
- Kali Yuga	3484–3485
Holocene calendar	10383
Iranian calendar	239 BP – 238 BP
Islamic calendar	246 BH – 245 BH
Julian calendar	383 CCCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	2716
Minguo calendar	1529 before ROC 民前1529年
Seleucid era	694/695 AG
Thai solar calendar	925–926

Year 383 (CCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Merobaudes and Saturninus (or, less frequently, year 1136 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 383 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Britannia

• Niall of the Nine Hostages becomes the first High King of Ireland
• Hadrian's Wall, the northern Roman frontier in Britain, is overrun by the Picts and falls into ruin.

Roman Empire

• January 19 – Arcadius is elevated to Emperor.
• Roman troops in Britain proclaim Magnus Maximus Emperor. He crosses over to the continent and makes Trier his capital. Gaul, the Italian provinces and Hispania proclaim loyalty to him.
• August 25 – Emperor Gratian, age 24, is assassinated at Lugdunum (modern Lyon), leaving a young widow Laeta. Pannonia and Africa maintain their allegiance to co-emperor Valentinian II, now 12, whose mother, Justina, rules in his name.
• Emperor Theodosius I cedes Dacia and Macedonia to Valentinian II. They recognize Magnus Maximus as Augustus.
• Theodosius I sends Flavius Stilicho as an envoy to the Persian court of king Shapur III at Ctesiphon to negotiate a peace settlement relating to the partition of Armenia.

Asia

• Battle of Feishui: The Jin Dynasty defeats the Former Qin dynasty in Anhui.
• King Ardashir II dies after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Shapur III.

By topic

Religion

• First Council of Constantinople (some authorities date this council to 381): Theodosius I calls a general council to affirm and extend the Nicene creed, and denounce Arianism and Apollinarism. Most trinitarian Christian churches consider this an Ecumenical council.
• Eunomius of Cyzicus is banished to Moesia.

Births

• Lupus of Troyes, French bishop and saint (approximate date)

Deaths

• Ardashir II, king of Persia
• August 25 – Gratian, Roman Emperor (assassinated)
• December 10 – Pope Damasus I
• Flavia Maxima Constantia, daughter of Constantius II
• Frumentius, the "Apostle to Ethiopia"
• Fu Rong, general of the Chinese Di state Former Qin
• Wulfila, Arian Gothic bishop