399

Year 399 (CCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Eutropius and Theodorus (or, less frequently, year 1152 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 399 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.

399 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	399 CCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	1152
Assyrian calendar	5149
Balinese saka calendar	320–321
Bengali calendar	−195 – −194
Berber calendar	1349
Buddhist calendar	943
Burmese calendar	−239
Byzantine calendar	5907–5908
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3096 or 2889     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3097 or 2890
Coptic calendar	115–116
Discordian calendar	1565
Ethiopian calendar	391–392
Hebrew calendar	4159–4160
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	455–456
- Shaka Samvat	320–321
- Kali Yuga	3499–3500
Holocene calendar	10399
Iranian calendar	223 BP – 222 BP
Islamic calendar	230 BH – 229 BH
Javanese calendar	282–283
Julian calendar	399 CCCXCIX
Korean calendar	2732
Minguo calendar	1513 before ROC 民前1513年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1069
Seleucid era	710/711 AG
Thai solar calendar	941–942
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 525 or 144 or −628     — to — ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 526 or 145 or −627

Emperor Nintoku (313–399) (right)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Emperor Honorius of the Western Roman Empire, who is only 15 years old, closes the gladiatorial schools in Rome, and legally ends munera (gladiator games).
• Flavius Mallius Theodorus becomes Roman consul and official at the imperial court of emperor Arcadius.
• Gainas, a Gothic leader, is made magister militum and forms an alliance with deserters of Tribigild along the Bosphorus. He proclaims himself co-regent (usurper), and installs his forces in Constantinople. Gainas deposes anti-Gothic officials and has Eutropius, imperial advisor (cubicularius), executed.

Middle East

• King Bahram IV dies after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded by Yazdegerd I, who becomes the thirteenth Sassanid Emperor of Persia.

Asia

• Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk, travels to India, Sri Lanka and Kapilavastu (modern Nepal).
• Xianbei kingdom of Southern Yan conquers Qing Province (modern central and eastern Shandong) from the Eastern Jin.

By topic

Religion

• November 26 – Pope Siricius dies at Rome after a 15-year reign in which he has commanded celibacy for priests, asserted papal authority over the entire Western Church, and threatened to impose sanctions on those who do not follow his dictates.
• Anastasius I succeeds Siricius as the 39th pope. He seeks to reconcile the churches of Rome and Antioch. Anastasius also condemns the doctrine of Origen.
• Flavian I is acknowledged as legitimate bishop of Antioch by the Church of Rome.

Births

• Narsai, Syriac poet and theologian (approximate date)

Deaths

• November 26 – Pope Siricius^[1]
• Bahram IV, king of the Sassanid Empire (Persia)
• Eutropius, Roman consul and eunuch
• Evagrius Ponticus, Christian monk and ascetic (b. 345)
• Fabiola, Christian saint
• Nintoku, emperor of Japan
• Tribigild, Ostrogothic general
• Tufa Wugu, prince of the Xianbei state Southern Liang
• Yuan Shansong, official and poet of the Jin Dynasty