AD 383

"383 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 383 BC.

Year 383 (CCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday 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.

383 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	383 CCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1136
Assyrian calendar	5133
Balinese saka calendar	304–305
Bengali calendar	−211 – −210
Berber calendar	1333
Buddhist calendar	927
Burmese calendar	−255
Byzantine calendar	5891–5892
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3080 or 2873     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3081 or 2874
Coptic calendar	99–100
Discordian calendar	1549
Ethiopian calendar	375–376
Hebrew calendar	4143–4144
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	439–440
- Shaka Samvat	304–305
- Kali Yuga	3483–3484
Holocene calendar	10383
Iranian calendar	239 BP – 238 BP
Islamic calendar	246 BH – 245 BH
Javanese calendar	266–267
Julian calendar	383 CCCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	2716
Minguo calendar	1529 before ROC 民前1529年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1085
Seleucid era	694/695 AG
Thai solar calendar	925–926
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 509 or 128 or −644     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 510 or 129 or −643

Solidus of Emperor Gratian (359–383)

Events

By place

Britannia

• Niall of the Nine Hostages becomes the first High King of Ireland.^[1]
• Magnus Maximus withdraws Roman troops from the region of Wales, marking the effective end of Roman rule in Wales.^[2]

Roman Empire

• January 19 – Arcadius is elevated to Emperor.^[3]
• Roman troops in Britannia proclaim Magnus Maximus as their Emperor. He crosses over to the continent and makes Trier his capital.^[4] Gaul, the Italian provinces and Hispania proclaim loyalty to him.
• August 25 – Emperor Gratian, age 24, is assassinated at Lugdunum (modern-day 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 Fei River (Feishui):^[5] Former Qin forces are defeated by the numerically inferior Eastern Jin army in Anhui, preserving the Jin state in the south and precipitating the destruction of Former Qin in the north.
• King Ardashir II dies after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Shapur III.^[6]

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.
• By the order of Theodosius I, Eunomius of Cyzicus is banished to Moesia.

Births

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

Deaths

• May 30 – Isaac of Dalmatia, Byzantine Orthodox priest and saint
• August 25 – Gratian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 359)^[7]
• October 21 – Ursula, Roman Christian martyr and saint
• Ardashir II, Sassanid king (shah) ("King of Kings")
• Flavia Maxima Constantia, daughter of Constantius II
• Frumentius, Phoenician missionary and bishop^[8]
• Fu Rong, Chinese general and prime minister
• Ulfilas (or Wulfila), Gothic missionary and bishop^[9]