384

This article is about the year 384. For the number, see 384 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	350s  360s  370s  – 380s –  390s  400s  410s
Years:	381 382 383 – 384 – 385 386 387

384 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

384 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	384 CCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1137
Assyrian calendar	5134
Bengali calendar	−209
Berber calendar	1334
Buddhist calendar	928
Burmese calendar	−254
Byzantine calendar	5892–5893
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 3080 or 3020     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3081 or 3021
Coptic calendar	100–101
Discordian calendar	1550
Ethiopian calendar	376–377
Hebrew calendar	4144–4145
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	440–441
- Shaka Samvat	306–307
- Kali Yuga	3485–3486
Holocene calendar	10384
Iranian calendar	238 BP – 237 BP
Islamic calendar	245 BH – 244 BH
Julian calendar	384 CCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar	2717
Minguo calendar	1528 before ROC 民前1528年
Seleucid era	695/696 AG
Thai solar calendar	926–927

King Shapur III of Persia

Year 384 (CCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ricomer and Clearchus (or, less frequently, year 1137 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 384 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

Roman Empire

• Magnus Maximus elevates his son Flavius Victor to the rank of Augustus.
• Magnus Maximus returns to Britain to aid them with the Barbarians raids triggered by Maximus' withdrawal of troops to the continent.
• The Forum of Theodosius ("Forum of the Bull") is built in Constantinople.
• Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes urban prefect of Rome.
• An edict of Theodosius I closes pagan temples in the Nile Valley (Egypt).
• Flavius Stilicho marries Serena, adopted niece of Theodosius I.

Persia

• King Shapur III signs a treaty with Theodosius I. Armenia is divided in two kingdoms, and becomes a vassal state of the Roman Empire and Persia. The friendly relations survive for 36 years.

Asia

• King Chimnyu ascends to the throne of Baekje (Korea), he welcomes the Indian Buddhist monk Marananta into his palace, and declares later Buddhism the official religion.

China

• The Battle of Fei River - Former Qin forces are defeated by the numerically inferior Eastern Jin army, preserving the Jin state in the south and precipitating the destruction of Former Qin in the north.

By topic

Religion

• December 17 – Pope Siricius succeeds Damasus I as the 38th pope. He takes the title Pontifex Maximus, after it is relinquished by late emperor Gratian.
• Jerome, Christian prophet, writes his celebrated letter "De custodia virginitatis" (vow of virginity) to Eustochium, daughter of the ascetic Paula. He has by this time completed his Vulgate translation of the Gospels.
• Ambrosius refuses the request of empress Justina for a church in Milan, where she can worship according to her Arian belief.
• A synod is held in Bordeaux (France).
• The Gallaeci or Gallic woman Egeria concludes her Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land at about this date; her narrative of it, the Itinerarium Egeriae, may be the earliest surviving formal writing by a woman in western European culture.

Births

• Chu Lingyuan, last empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 436)
• September 9 – Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
• Maria, empress and daughter of Stilicho (approximate date)
• Sengzhao, Chinese Buddhist philosopher (d. 414)
• Wang Shen'ai, empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 412)

Deaths

• Chu Suanzi, empress of the Jin Dynasty (b. 324)
• December 11 – Pope Damasus I
• Geungusu, king of Baekje (Korea)
• Huan Chong, general and governor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 328)
• Murong Hong, founder of the Xianbei state Western Yan
• Xi Zuochi, Jin Dynasty historian
• Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, praetorian prefect