399
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- This article is about the year 399. For other uses, see 399 (number).
| Centuries: | 3rd century · 4th century · 5th century |
| Decades: | 360s 370s 380s 390s 400s 410s 420s |
| Years: | 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 |
| 399 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 399 CCCXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1152 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Chinese calendar | 3095 – 3096 戊戌 – 己亥 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 391 – 392 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4159 – 4160 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 454 – 455 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 321 – 322 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3500 – 3501 |
| Iranian calendar | 223 BP – 222 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 230 BH – 229 BH |
Events
By Place
Western Roman Empire
- Flavius Mallius Theodorus becomes Roman consul.
- Gladiatorial schools in Rome are closed.
Eastern Roman Empire
- Forming an alliance with deserters of Tribigild along the Bosphorus Gothic leader Gainas devastates the outlying areas near Constantinople.
Asia
- Yazdegerd I becomes king of Persia
- Fa-Hien, a Chinese Buddhist monk, travels to India
By Topic
Religion
- November 27 - Pope Anastasius I succeeds Pope Siricius as the 39th pope.
- Anastasius seeks to reconcile the churches of Rome and Antioch.
- Flavian I of Antioch is acknowledged as legitimate bishop of Antioch by the Church of Rome.
- Anastasius and other bishops condemn the doctrine of Origen.
Births
- January 19 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
Deaths
- Bahram IV of Persia
- Eutropius (Byzantine official)
- Yuan Shansong, Chinese poet