384

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

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 giving names to years.

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

384 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	384 CCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1137
Assyrian calendar	5134
Balinese saka calendar	305–306
Bengali calendar	−209
Berber calendar	1334
Buddhist calendar	928
Burmese calendar	−254
Byzantine calendar	5892–5893
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 3081 or 2874     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3082 or 2875
Coptic calendar	100–101
Discordian calendar	1550
Ethiopian calendar	376–377
Hebrew calendar	4144–4145
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	440–441
- Shaka Samvat	305–306
- Kali Yuga	3484–3485
Holocene calendar	10384
Iranian calendar	238 BP – 237 BP
Islamic calendar	245 BH – 244 BH
Javanese calendar	267–268
Julian calendar	384 CCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar	2717
Minguo calendar	1528 before ROC 民前1528年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1084
Seleucid era	695/696 AG
Thai solar calendar	926–927
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 510 or 129 or −643     — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 511 or 130 or −642

King Shapur III of Persia

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Magnus Maximus elevates his son Flavius Victor to the rank of Augustus.
• Magnus Maximus returns to Britain, to aid the Roman army with the barbarian 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).
• 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 later declares Buddhism the official religion.
• Gogugyang becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.

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 the 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

• September 9 – Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
• Chu Lingyuan, last empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 436)
• 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

Saint Servatius of Tongeren

Pope Damasus I

• May 13 – Servatius of Tongeren, Roman Catholic bishop and saint
• July 20 – Pope Timothy I of Alexandria
• December 11 – Pope Damasus I

Date unknown

• Chu Suanzi, empress of the Jin Dynasty (b. 324)
• 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
• Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, praetorian prefect
• Xi Zuochi, Jin Dynasty historian