274

Year 274 (CCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	240s  250s  260s  – 270s –  280s  290s  300s
Years:	271 272 273 – 274 – 275 276 277

274 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	274 CCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1027
Assyrian calendar	5024
Balinese saka calendar	195–196
Bengali calendar	−319
Berber calendar	1224
Buddhist calendar	818
Burmese calendar	−364
Byzantine calendar	5782–5783
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2970 or 2910     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2971 or 2911
Coptic calendar	−10 – −9
Discordian calendar	1440
Ethiopian calendar	266–267
Hebrew calendar	4034–4035
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	330–331
- Shaka Samvat	195–196
- Kali Yuga	3374–3375
Holocene calendar	10274
Iranian calendar	348 BP – 347 BP
Islamic calendar	359 BH – 358 BH
Javanese calendar	153–154
Julian calendar	274 CCLXXIV
Korean calendar	2607
Minguo calendar	1638 before ROC 民前1638年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1194
Seleucid era	585/586 AG
Thai solar calendar	816–817
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 400 or 19 or −753     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 401 or 20 or −752

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Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Battle of Châlons: Emperor Aurelian reconquers the Gallic Empire.
• Rome calls Aurelian "Restorer of the World".
• Aurelian makes an important change of Roman currency.
• December 25 – Aurelian has a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus. This religion becomes the state religion of Rome.

Africa

• The Kingdom of Aksum gets great wealth thanks to its control of Red Sea trade.

By topic

Religion

• December 30 – Pope Felix I dies in Rome after a 5-year reign.

Transportation

• Japanese shipwrights build a 100-foot oar-powered vessel for Emperor Ōjin. The Japanese will not use sails for another 7 centuries.

Births

• Li Xiong, first emperor of Cheng Han (d. 334)
• Shi Le, founder and emperor of the Chinese Jie state (d. 333)

Deaths

• Cao Fang, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 231)
• December 30—Pope Felix I
• Lu Kang, general of the Kingdom of Wu (b. 226)
• Empress Yang Yan, first wife of Emperor Wu (b. 238)
• Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (b. 240)