334

This article is about the year 334. For the novel by Thomas M. Disch, see 334 (novel). For other uses, see 334 (disambiguation).

Year 334 (CCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Optatus and Caesonius (or, less frequently, year 1087 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 334 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.

334 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	334 CCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1087
Assyrian calendar	5084
Balinese saka calendar	255–256
Bengali calendar	−260 – −259
Berber calendar	1284
Buddhist calendar	878
Burmese calendar	−304
Byzantine calendar	5842–5843
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3031 or 2824     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3032 or 2825
Coptic calendar	50–51
Discordian calendar	1500
Ethiopian calendar	326–327
Hebrew calendar	4094–4095
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	390–391
- Shaka Samvat	255–256
- Kali Yuga	3434–3435
Holocene calendar	10334
Iranian calendar	288 BP – 287 BP
Islamic calendar	297 BH – 296 BH
Javanese calendar	215–216
Julian calendar	334 CCCXXXIV
Korean calendar	2667
Minguo calendar	1578 before ROC 民前1578年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1134
Seleucid era	645/646 AG
Thai solar calendar	876–877
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 460 or 79 or −693     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 461 or 80 or −692

Gladiators from the Zliten mosaic (Libya)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Flavius Dalmatius puts down a revolt in Cyprus, led by Calocaerus. Calocaerus is brought to Tarsus (Cilicia), and executed.^[1]
• The Goths protect the Danube frontier against an invasion by the Vandals.^[2][3]
• Emperor Constantine the Great reauthorises gladiatorial combat.

Births

• Huiyuan, Chinese Buddhist teacher and founder of Donglin Temple (d. 416)^[4]
• Sabbas the Goth, Christian reader and saint (d. 372)^[5]
• Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, Roman historian and politician (d. 394)^[6]

Deaths

• December 5 – Li Ban, Chinese emperor of Cheng-Han (b. 288)
• Calocaerus, Roman usurper^[1]
• Li Xiong, Chinese emperor of Cheng-Han (b. 274)^[7]
• Shi Hong, Chinese emperor of the Jie state (b. 313)^[8]
• Tao Kan (or Shixing), Chinese general and politician (b. 259)^[9]
• Wei Huacun (or Xianan), Chinese religious leader (b. 252)^[10]
• Yang Nandi, Chinese general and ruler of Chouchi