357

This article is about the year 357. For other uses, see 357 (disambiguation).

Year 357 (CCCLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Iulianus (or, less frequently, year 1110 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 357 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.

357 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	357 CCCLVII
Ab urbe condita	1110
Assyrian calendar	5107
Balinese saka calendar	278–279
Bengali calendar	−237 – −236
Berber calendar	1307
Buddhist calendar	901
Burmese calendar	−281
Byzantine calendar	5865–5866
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3054 or 2847     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3055 or 2848
Coptic calendar	73–74
Discordian calendar	1523
Ethiopian calendar	349–350
Hebrew calendar	4117–4118
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	413–414
- Shaka Samvat	278–279
- Kali Yuga	3457–3458
Holocene calendar	10357
Iranian calendar	265 BP – 264 BP
Islamic calendar	273 BH – 272 BH
Javanese calendar	239–240
Julian calendar	357 CCCLVII
Korean calendar	2690
Minguo calendar	1555 before ROC 民前1555年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1111
Seleucid era	668/669 AG
Thai solar calendar	899–900
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 483 or 102 or −670     — to — མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 484 or 103 or −669

Battle of Strasbourg (Argentoratum)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• April 28 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnentius. He address the Senate and the Roman people.
• August 25 – Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum), driving the barbarians back behind the Rhine.
• The Imperial Library of Constantinople is founded.
• Ammianus Marcellinus describes the Pantheon as being "rounded like the boundary of the horizon and vaulted with a beautiful loftiness".
• Winter – Constantius II receives ambassadors from the Persian Empire. They demand that Rome restore the lands surrendered by King Narseh.

Asia

• The reign of Fú Jiān, the emperor of Former Qin, commences in China.
• The Alans rout the Hun army in Western Asia.

Ireland

• Saran, King of Ulster, is overthrown.

By topic

Religion

• Late in the year Pope Liberius travels to Sirmium (Pannonia) and agrees to sign documents that effectively undo the Nicene Creed (which implicitly disavows Arianism) and to sever his relationship with the former Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is replaced as patriarch of Alexandria by his Arian opponent George of Cappadocia.
• At about this date, the relics of St Andrew the Apostle are taken from Patras to Constantinople by order of the Emperor Constantius II, and deposited in the Church of the Holy Apostles.^[1]
• At about this date, Basil of Caesarea visits Egypt.

Births

Deaths

• Fu Sheng, Chinese emperor of the Di state Former Qin (b. 335)
• Xie Shang (or Renzu), Chinese general and musician (b. 308)
• Yao Xiang (or Jingguo), Chinese general and warlord (b. 331)