This article is about the year 355. For other uses, see 355 (disambiguation).
355 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 355
CCCLV
Ab urbe condita 1108
Assyrian calendar 5105
Balinese saka calendar 276–277
Bengali calendar −239 – −238
Berber calendar 1305
Buddhist calendar 899
Burmese calendar −283
Byzantine calendar 5863–5864
Chinese calendar 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3052 or 2845
    — to —
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3053 or 2846
Coptic calendar 71–72
Discordian calendar 1521
Ethiopian calendar 347–348
Hebrew calendar 4115–4116
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 411–412
 - Shaka Samvat 276–277
 - Kali Yuga 3455–3456
Holocene calendar 10355
Iranian calendar 267 BP – 266 BP
Islamic calendar 275 BH – 274 BH
Javanese calendar 237–238
Julian calendar 355
CCCLV
Korean calendar 2688
Minguo calendar 1557 before ROC
民前1557年
Nanakshahi calendar −1113
Seleucid era 666/667 AG
Thai solar calendar 897–898
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Wood-Tiger)
481 or 100 or −672
    — to —
ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Wood-Hare)
482 or 101 or −671
The Huns in battle with the Alans by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1873)

Year 355 (CCCLV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Arbitio and Maesius (or, less frequently, year 1108 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 355 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

  • January 1 – Arbitio and Lollianus Mavortius begin their term as Roman consuls.[1][2]
  • August 11 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor.[3] After 28 days, Ursicinus arrives from Rome and has Silvanus murdered.
  • November 6 – In Mediolanum (Italy), Emperor Constantius II raises his cousin Julian the Apostate to the rank of Caesar.[4] He takes command of the western provinces and marries Constantius' sister, Helena.

Europe

  • The Lentienses, a Germanic tribe, are fined by the Roman commander Arbetio under Constantius II for several incursions against the Roman Empire.
  • The Franks besiege Colonia Agrippinensium for ten months.

Asia

  • The Huns of Central Asia begin their great drive westwards with an advance into Scythia (modern Ukraine). They overcome and absorb the Alans, a nomadic and warlike horse breeding people from the steppes northeast of the Black Sea. [citation needed]

By topic

Religion

  • Pope Liberius refuses to sign a condemnation of Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, imposed at Milan by Constantius II. Liberius is exiled to Beroea (Greece) and replaced by Felix II. He becomes an antipope and bishop of Rome.


Births

  • Fan Tai, Chinese general of the Jin Dynasty (d. 428)
  • Murong Bao, Chinese emperor of Later Yan (d. 398)

Deaths

  • September 7 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
  • Aedesius, Roman Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic[5]
  • Fu Jian, Chinese emperor of the Former Qin (b. 317)[6]
  • Liang, Chinese empress of the Former Qin Dynasty
  • Zhang Yaoling, Chinese ruler of Former Liang (b. 344)
  • Zhang Zuo (or Taibo), Chinese ruler of Former Liang

References

  1. ^ E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 64
  2. ^ Timothy David Barnes (1981). Constantine and Eusebius. Harvard University Press. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-674-16531-1.
  3. ^ Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 15.2.3.
  4. ^ G.W. Bowersock, Julian the Apostate (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1978), pp. 15, 34 ISBN 0-674-48882-2
  5. ^ Henry Fynes Clinton (1845). Fasti Romani: Tables. University Press. pp. 363.
  6. ^ Jennifer Holmgren (1982). Annals of Tai: Early T'O-Pa History According to the First Chapter of the Wei-Shu. Faculty of Asian Studies. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-909879-16-7.