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242


Year 242 (CCXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Gordian III begins fighting against King Shapur I. The Greek philosopher Plotinus joins him and hopes to get first-hand knowledge of Persian and Indian philosophies. 
 Gordian III leaves the Cimmerian cities in the Bosphorus (Crimea), as the land is now controlled by the Goths.

Persia 
 Shapur I makes an attack on Antioch to drive out the Romans.

By topic

Religion 
 Patriarch Titus succeeds Patriarch Eugenius I as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births 
 Cao Mao, fourth emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 260)
 Saloninus, Roman Emperor (d. 260)
 Sun Hao, last emperor of the Kingdom of Wu (d. 284)

Deaths 
 Man Chong, adviser to the Kingdom of Wei
 Sun Shao, general of the Wu Kingdom (b. 188)

240s
Janko Tipsarević

Janko Tipsarević (born June 22, 1984) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Janko became pro in 2002. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia. Janko plays tennis right handed. He has a two-handed backhand.

Sources
 ATP Profile

Other websites

 Tipsarevic`s official website

1984 births
Living people
Male tennis players
Serbian tennis players
People from Belgrade
Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing

Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing is a book of essays about writing. The author is Joseph Epstein. 

Kirkus Reviews and Los Angeles Times wrote about the book. The Chicago Tribune also had good things to say about the book. It said that Epstein's essays of literary criticism are his most interesting works and that they were definitely worth preserving together in a collection.

References

Essays
Stranger with My Face

Stranger with My Face is a fiction book. The author is Lois Duncan. It won an award called ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

Other websites

Fiction books
Horror and fiction
Delhi Capitals

The Delhi Daredevils are a team in the Indian Premier League. In 2012 they qualified for the playoffs.

References

Cricket clubs
Indian Premier League
406 BC


Year 406 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 
 Callicratidas becomes the navarch of the Spartan fleet, replacing Lysander. 
 Athens wins the Battle of Arginusae.
 Returning to Athens after the battle, Theramenes leads Athenian anger against the eight generals who were in the battle. They did not get survivors from the broken ships after the battle. The Athenian generals are put to death.
 Sparta asks for peace. Cleophon says no.

Roman Republic 
 The Roman forces begin a decade-long siege against Veii.

Carthage 
 The Carthaginians again invade Sicily and attack Agrigentum. Plague breaks out in their camp and Hannibal Mago dies.

Deaths 

 Euripides, Athenian playwright (b. c. 480 BC)
 Hannibal Mago, Carthaginian general
 Sophocles, Athenian dramatist and politician (b. c. 495 BC)

400s BC
240


Year 240 (CCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 The Roman Empire is threatened on several fronts at the same time.  Africa revolts and tribes in northwest Germania, under the name of the Franks, are raiding the Rhine frontier.

Asia 
 Maharaja Sri-Gupta becomes Emperor of Gupta.
 Ardashir I, Sassanid king of Persia, destroys Hatra.
 Shapur I becomes co-emperor with his father Ardashir I
 The Kushan Empire falls.

By topic

Religion 
 At the court of Ardashir I, Mani, a young mystic of Ctesiphon, calls himself a prophet and preaches his doctrine, Manichaeism, throughout the Persian Empire.

Births 
 Lactantius, Christian writer (d. 320) (approximate date)
 Sporus of Nicaea,  Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)
 Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (d. 274)

Deaths 
 Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher (approximate date)
 Huang Quan, general of the Kingdom of Shu
 King Midang, king of the Qiang tribe
 Zhou Fang, general of the Kingdom of Wu

240s
276


Year 276 (CCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Tacitus doubled the silver content of the Roman currency.
 Marcus Annius Florianus defeats the Goths and Alans who have invaded Asia Minor. Tacitus dies of illness or is murdered at Tyana in Cappadocia.
 Florianus becomes Roman Emperor. He stops his battles against the Heruli and marches from the Bosporus.  He has support from the Roman legions in Britain, Gaul, Spain and Italy.  No one is the winner in a battle with Marcus Aurelius Probus in Cilicia.
 Florianus keeps power for some weeks.  Then he is assassinated by his own troops near Tarsus (Turkey). Probus, age 44, is the new Emperor of Rome.
 Probus  picks Marcus Aurelius Carus to Prefect of the Praetorian Guard.

Asia 
 King Bahram I of Persia dies after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Bahram II.
 Reign of Mahasena in Ceylon. He tries to introduce Mahayana Buddhism to the country.

By topic

Religion 
 Mani, a sage from Persia, dies at Gundeshapur.

Births 
 Gregory the Elder, bishop of Nazianzus (approximate date)
 Guo Pu, Chinese writer (d. 324)
 Jin Yuandi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 323)
 Wang Dao, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (d. 339)

Deaths 
 Bahram I, king of Persia
 Mani, prophet and founder of Manichaeism
 Marcus Annius Florianus, Roman Emperor
 Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman Emperor

270s
173


Year 173 (CLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Gnaeus Claudius Severus and Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus become Roman Consuls. 
 June 11 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius begins a battle against the Quadi.
 Avidius Cassius, the governor of Syria, stops shepherds known as the boukoloi.

Births 
 Maximinus Thrax, Roman emperor  (d. 238)
 Mi Heng  (d. 200)
 Sun Ben, nephew of Sun Jian  (d. 209)
 Yuan Tan, eldest son of Yuan Shao  (d. 205)

Deaths
175


Year 175 (CLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Marcus Aurelius stops a revolt of Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria.
 Avidius Cassius is assassinated by Roman officers. 
 Commodus is named Caesar.

Asia 
 Confucian scholars try to stay in the royal court of China.  They are massacred by the eunuchs.

By topic

Religion 
 Pope Eleuterus succeeds Pope Soter as the thirteenth pope (approximate date).

Births 
 Cao Ang, eldest son of Cao Cao (d. 197)
 Gan Ning, general of Wu (d. 218)
 Sun Ce, elder brother of founder of the Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan (d. 200)
 Wei Yan, general of Shu (d. 234)
 Yang Xiu (d. 219)
 Zhou Yu, militarist and strategist of the Three Kingdoms of China (d. 210)
 Ma Chao, son of Ma Teng, cousin of Ma Dai, brother of Ma Tie and Ma Xie, general and Tiger general of Shu for Liu Bei. (d. 222)

Deaths 
 July – Avidius Cassius, Roman Emperor (usurper)
 Concordius of Spoleto, Christian martyr
 Faustina the Younger, Roman empress
127


Year 127 (CXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Hadrian returns to Rome after a seven-year trip to the Roman provinces. 
 Hadrian decides that Christians will not be put to death without a trial.

India 
 Kanishka I starts to rule in Kushan Empire (approximate date).

By topic

Religion 
 The philosopher Carpocrates says ownership of private property is un-Christian.

Births 
 Zheng Xuan, Chinese philosopher (d. 200)

Deaths 
 Plutarch, Greek historian
540s BC



Events and trends
 546 BC—Croesus, Lydian king, is defeated by Cyrus of Persia near the River Halys.
 546 BC—Cyrus of Persia completes his conquest of Lydia, and makes Pasargadae his capital.
 546 BC—Cyrus makes a garrison in Sardis.  He adds the Greek cities of Ionia in Asia Minor into Persian Empire. He gains the important ports that look out to the Mediterranean world.
 546 BC—Pisistratus takes power in Athens from the aristocratic party.
 546 BC—The architect Eupalinos of Megara built aqueducts that supply water to Athens.
 546 BC—The peace conference between the kingdoms in China. A treaty between Jin, Chu and some other kingdoms was signed.
 546 BC—A coup d'état in Qi kingdom.
 544 BC—People of Teos move to Abdera, Thrace to escape Persia.
 544 BC—King Jing becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
 543 BC—North Indian Prince Vijaya invades Ceylon.  He makes a Sri Lankan dynasty.
 543 BC—Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, purifies the island of Delos (approximate date).
 543 BC—Guided by the Chinese statesman Zi Chan, the State of Zheng starts a formal code of law.
 540 BC—Cyrus attacks Babylonia.
 540 BC—Greek city of Elea of southern Italy founded (approximate date).
 540 BC—Persians conquer Lycian city of Xanthos now in southern Turkey (approximate date).
 c. 540 BC—Amasis Painter makes Dionysos with maenads, black-figure decoration on an amphora. It is now at Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
 c. 540 BC—Exekias makes The Suicide of Ajax, black-figure decoration on a amphora. It is now at Chateau-Musee, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

Significant people
 549 BC—Birth of Darius I
 547 BC—Death of Croesus
 546 BC—Death of Anaximander, Greek philosopher (approximate date)
 545 BC—Death of Zhou ling wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China
 544 BC—Birth of Sun Tzu
 543 BC—Death of Gautama Buddha (traditional in Thailand and elsewhere—basis of the Thai solar calendar)
 543 BC—Death of Thales, Greek philosopher
 540 BC—Amyntas I becomes king of Macedonia (approximate date)
 Amasis Painter, Greek painter
 Exekias, Greek painter
203


Year 203 (CCIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Septimius Severus rebuilds Byzantium.
 Gaius Fulvius Plautianus and Publius Septimius Geta become Roman Consuls.
 An arch dedicated to Severus is put up near the Forum.
 The Portico of Octavia is rebuilt.

Asia 
 Reign in India of Vijaya, Satavahana king of the Andhra.
 The Andhra empire is being broken apart into smaller and smaller independent sections.

By topic

Religion 
 Origen of Alexandria replaces Clement as the head of the Christian school in Alexandria.

Births 
 November – Mahavatar Babaji in Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, India
 Probable birth of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus (d. 222)
 Cao Rui, emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (approximate date) (d. 239)
 Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, officer of the Wu Kingdom (d. 253)

Deaths 
 Perpetua, Christian saint (martyred)
 Felicitas, Christian saint (martyred)
 Ling Cao, general under Sun Ce and father of Ling Tong (killed by pirate Gan Ning)
 Wu Jing
Euclid's lemma

Euclid's lemma, also called Euclid's division lemma or Euclid's first theorem, is an important lemma. It was made by the mathematician Euclid.

Formula ( a = bq +r ) 
He basically proposed that for any two integers (let us call them 'a' and 'b') there exists 2 unique integers (Let us call them ' q ' and ' r ') that satisfies the equation, a = qb + r, where r<a.

In the equation, the variable 'b' is dividing the variable 'a'. This makes 'b' the divisor and 'a' as the dividend
'q' is the quotient and 'r' is the remainder

The equation thus means that a dividend is equal to its divisor multiplied with its quotient and added with its remainder.

Number theory
Thiruvalluvar

Thiruvalluvar ( in Tamil), was a Tamil poet and philosopher who wrote the  classic of couplets  of  Tamil, Thirukkural.

Memorials 
 A temple-like memorial to Thiruvalluvar, Valluvar Kottam, was built in Chennai in 1976.
 There is a 133-foot tall statue of Thiruvalluvar erected at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent Kanyakumari where the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean converge, the 133 feet denote Tirukkuṛaḷ's 133 Chapters or athikarams and the show of three fingers denote the three themes Aram, Porul, and Inbam, i.e. the sections on Morals, Wealth and Love.
 There is also a statue of Thiruvalluvar outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in Russell Square, London.

References

Other websites 
 Thirukkural Oli Pathipu: Thirukkural Audio book
 Dialogue and History Constructing South India,1795–1895, Eugene F.Irschick,UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
  Page 70
 Thirukural – Another site which is categorized by chapters

Tamil people
Philosophers
Poets
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Tephritidae

The Tephritidae are one of two fly families known as fruit flies. The other family is the Drosophilidae. 

There are nearly 5,000 species of tephritid fruit fly in almost 500 genera of the Tephritidae. Description and genetic analyses are constantly changing the taxonomy of this family. To distinguish them from the Drosophilidae, the Tephritidae are sometimes called 'peacock flies'.

References 

Flies
Japanese imperial family tree

This is a family tree of the Emperors of Japan (tenno) from Jimmu to the present day.

Legendary
The legendary genealogy of the emperors includes Shinto deities.

SHINTO DEITIES

Traditional
The traditional order of succession begins with Emperor Jimmu.

In the graphic chart, the names of Jimmu and his successors are highlighted in yellow.  The ordinal numbers of the Japanese monarchs are in red; and these are also highlighted in yellow.

The pretenders of the Nanboku-chō period are highlighted in beige.

EMPERORS and EMPRESSES

Related pages 
 List of emperors of Japan
 Line of succession to the Japanese throne

References

Other websites
 Imperial Household Agency (Kunaicho), Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan

 
Japanese imperial family
Magnetic monopole

A magnetic monopole is a hypothetical particle in particle physics that is a magnet with only one magnetic pole (a north pole without a south pole or the other way around). Scientists are interested in this, as they are predicted in several particle theories, such as grand unified and superstring. Magnetism in normal bar magnets and electromagnets does not come from magnetic monopoles. There is not enough evidence to even be sure that magnetic monopoles exist in this universe.

References 

Subatomic particles
Frank Bruno

Franklin Roy Bruno MBE (born 16 November 1961) is a British boxer-turned actor. His parents were from the Caribbean. He was born in Hammersmith, west London and grew up in Wandsworth, south London. He won the WBC heavyweight championship in 1995.

Bruno has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

References

Other websites 
Official website

1961 births
Living people
Actors from London
Black British actors
Black British sportspeople
British boxers
English movie actors
English television actors
People from Hammersmith
People from Wandsworth
People with bipolar disorder
Sportspeople from London
Carina nebula

The Carina nebula (NGC 3372 or the Great Nebula in Carina, the Eta Carina nebula) is a large, bright nebula. It is around 7,500 light years from Earth and has over 14,000 stars. It appears in the constellation of Carina in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way. The Carina nebula was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751 from the Cape of Good Hope. The French astronomer had made an astronomical expedition to record objects in the southern sky.

From the description in WP Commons:
"Trumpler 16 is an open cluster that contains the massive luminous blue variable Eta Carinae, one of the brightest stars in the galaxy. It is possibly as much as 120 times the mass of the Sun, and emits the light of 4,000,000 Suns. Eta Carinae is nearing the end of its life, and is surrounded by a huge nebula, cast off by numerous eruptions of the star over the last several centuries. It is expected to explode into a supernova at any time. Trumpler 14 (annotated) contains the huge double star HD 93129 A/B. The young O3 class star HD 93129 A is one of the brightest stars in the galaxy that is still on the main sequence, and with a luminosity equivalent to 3,000,000 Suns. It is very nearly as bright as Eta Carinae, but this is not obvious in the photo due to obscuring nebulosities".

References 

Nebulae
’O sole mio

"" is a famous Naples song written in 1898. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua.

It has been performed and covered by many artists as Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Mario Lanza and The Three Tenors. It has also been performed by rock/pop artists such as Dalida, Anna Oxa, Bryan Adams, Me First, SF9, Vitas Al Bano, Elvis Presley ("It's Now or Never"). Luciano Pavarotti won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for his rendition of "’O Sole Mio."

Lyrics 

19th-century songs
Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti (, ; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship.

He is well-known for his 1951 one-act opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors. It was commissioned by NBC for broadcast on television. Menotti wrote the music and the words.

Italian composers
1911 births
2007 deaths
260


Year 260 (CCLX) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Battle of Edessa: Emperor Valerian is defeated by the Persians.
 Valerianus I has a meeting with Shapur to talk about peace. The truce is betrayed and he is taken prisoner for the rest of his life.
 Shapur I sends Valerian to Bishapur. The Roman army builds the Band-e Kaisar (Bridge of Valerian).
 Gallienus becomes the new emperor of Rome.
 Gallienus leaves the fortifications in the Black Forest area because of invading Alamanni.              
 Gallienus lives at Mediolanum (modern Milan).
 Postumus, Roman usurper, forms the Gallic Empire.
 Saloninus, son of Gallienus, is made Augustus by his troops. 
 Postumus kills Saloninus. He is made emperor.
 Postumus wins over all the Roman provinces west of the Alps, including Gaul, Britain and Hispania.       
 The Roman fort  of Wiesbaden (Germany) is captured by the Alamanni.
 The Franks take control over the Scheldt estuary (approximate date).

Asia 
 Persian king Shapur I destroys Caesarea Mazaca in Asia Minor.
 Cao Huan succeeds Cao Mao as ruler of the Chinese Kingdom of Wei.
 Syria, Egypt and Palestine break off from the Roman Empire to form the Persian-supported Palmyrene Empire.

By topic

Arts and sciences 
 Earliest known date of chess.

Religion 
 Pope Dionysius makes bishop Dionysius of Alexandria explain why he is separating the members of the Trinity as three distinct gods.  
 Paul of Samosata becomes Patriarch of Antioch.

Births 
 Jin Huidi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (approximate date)
 Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman Emperor (d. 311)

Deaths 
 Cao Mao, ruler of the Chinese Kingdom of Wei (killed in an abortive coup d'état against Sima Zhao) (b. 241) 
 Chen Tai, minister of the Kingdom of Wei
 Saloninus, Roman emperor and son of Gallienus 
 Sun Liang, Emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (b. 243) 
 Valerianus I, Roman emperor (approximate date)

260s
284


Year 284 (CCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 The Bagaudae, a group of peasants, revolt in Gaul against the Roman Empire. The Dardani, a region in Illyria, becomes a Roman province.  
 Emperor Numerian travels through Bithynia (Asia Minor).  He is murdered on his way home to Rome. 
 November 20 – Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, age 39, is made emperor. 
 Sabinus Julianus, Roman usurper against Emperor Carinus, revolts in Pannonia. He attacks northern Italy and makes himself emperor. 
 Winter – Diocletianus moves with his army across the Balkans.

By topic

Religion 
 Patriarch Rufinus I succeeds Patriarch Dometius as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births 
 Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 313)

Deaths 
 Diophantus, Greek mathematician (approximate date)
 Marcus Aurelius Numerian, Roman Emperor 
 Sun Hao, last emperor of the Kingdom of Wu (b. 242)
 Xin Xianying, daughter of Xin Pi (b. 205)

280s
188


Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes proconsul of Africa.

Asia 
 Queen Himiko (aka, Pimiko) starts to rule in Japan.
 Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun are defeated by Han forces under Liu Yu.

Births 
 April 4 – Lucius Septimius Bassianus (Caracalla), Roman Emperor (d. 217)
 Sun Shao, general of Wu (d. 241)

Deaths
480 BC


Year 480 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 
 May – King Xerxes I of Persia marches from Sardis and onto Thrace and Macedonia.
 A force of 10,000 Greeks goes to the Vale of Tempe.  
 August 11 – The Battle of Thermopylae ends in victory for the Persians under Xerxes. 
 Pausanias becomes regent for Leonidas' son, Pleistarchus, after Leonidas I is killed at Thermopylae.
 Phocis and the coasts of Euboea are ruined by the Persians. Thebes and most of Boeotia join Xerxes.
 King Alexander I of Macedon must join Xerxes in a battle through Greece.
 August – The Persians win over the Greeks in the Battle of Artemisium.
 September 21 – The Persians sack Athens.  The people leave to Salamis and then Peloponnesus.
 September 28 – The Battle of Salamis brings victory to the Greeks.

Roman Republic 
 Roman troops march against the Veintes.

Sicily 
 Xerxes wants the Carthaginians to attack the Greeks in Sicily. Carthage sends across a large army.
 The Greek city of Himera asks for Carthaginian support in its fight with Akragas. With the help of Gelo, the Carthaginians are defeated in the Battle of Himera. After the defeat, Hamilcar kills himself.

Persian empire 
 The Imperial treasury at the Persepolis Palace is completed after a building time of thirty years.

By topic

Arts 
 The archaic period of sculpture ends in Greece.  The Severe (Early Classical) period starts(approximate date).
 A sculpture of a Dying warrior is made in the left corner of the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaea in Aegina (approximate date). Today, it is kept at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek in Munich, Germany.
 The sculpture of a Kritios Boy is made on Acropolis, Athens (approximate date). It is now kept in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
 Work begins on the detail Musicians and Dancers on a wall painting in the Tomb of the Lionesses in Tarquinia. It is finished about ten years later.

Births 

 Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
 Antiphon, Attic orator (d. 411 BC)
 Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. c. 405 BC)

Deaths 

 August 11 – Leonidas I, Agiad King of Sparta (died at Thermopylae)
 Xenophanes, Greek philosopher (b. 570 BC)
 Hamilcar, Carthaginian general
495 BC


Year 495 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Republic 
 A temple is built on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, in Rome, in honour of the god Mercury.

China 
 King Fuchai of Wu ascends to the throne after his father, King Helü of Wu, reigning as the last king of Wu until 473 BC.

Births 

 Pericles, Athenian politician (d. 429 BC)
Arquette

Arquette is a surname. People with this name include an American family, many of whom are actors:

Cliff Arquette (1904-1974), an actor who was popular on The Tonight Show
Cliff's son Lewis Arquette (1935-2001)
Lewis' children: Rosanna Arquette (born 1959), Richmond Arquette (born 1963), Patricia Arquette (born 1968), Alexis Arquette (1969-2016) and David Arquette (born 1971).

Surnames
David Arquette

David James Arquette is an American actor, movie director, and producer. He was born in Winchester, Virginia to actor Lewis Arquette (1935-2001) and poet Mardi (née Nowak, died 1997). He is best known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Dewey Riley in the Scream movies. 

Arquette played a wrestling fan in the movie Ready to Rumble. To market this movie, WCW hired Arquette to appear on their TV show and win their world title. Arquette argued he should not win the belt because he is not a real wrestler but WCW talked him into it. The attention received was only negative and the backlash eventually caused WCW to go out of business. The movie was also a critical disaster that ruined the careers of some of the actors in it, like Oliver Platt.

Because Arquette is also a wrestling fan in real life, he regretted making a mockery of wrestling and donated the money he made from WCW to families of dead wrestlers Owen Hart and Brian Pillman and also to Darren Drozdov, who was paralyzed in a wrestling match.

Arquette was a contestant on the 13th season of Dancing with the Stars in fall 2011.

References

Other websites 

1971 births
Living people
Actors from Virginia
Actors from Los Angeles
Movie directors from Los Angeles
American movie actors
American movie directors
American movie producers
American television actors
American television directors
American television producers
American voice actors
Jewish American actors
American wrestlers
Arquette family
Participants in American reality television series
Sportspeople from Virginia
320


Year 320 (CCCXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Crispus wins against the Franks.
 Licinius stopped the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan.  He persecutes Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Asia 
 King Chandragupta I founds the Gupta dynasty in northern India.
 The Huns appear in Persia.

By topic

Art 
 Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, is started to be built (approximate date).

Culture and Religion 
 In Nydam Mose (Denmark) the Nydam oak boat is sacrificed by the Danes. The boat is excavated in the 1830s, when a local farmer finds weapons including swords and spears.  
 December 25 is introduced as the birthday of Jesus.

Science 
 October 18 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, sees an eclipse of the sun.  He writes on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).

Births 
 Aurelius Victor, historian and politician (approximate date)
 Constans I, Roman emperor (d. 350)
 Flavian I, Patriarch of Antioch (d. 404)
 Jin Jianwendi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 372)
 Oribasius, Greek physician (approximate date)
 Tuoba Shiyijian, prince of the Tuoba Dai (d. 376)
 Xie An, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (d. 385)

Deaths 
 Lactantius, Christian writer (approximate date)
 Sima Bao, prince of the Jin Dynasty (b. 294)

320s
274



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

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)

270s
President of Ecuador

The President of Ecuador () is the chief of state and the head of government in the country. Under the current Constitution (adopted in 2008), the President is elected by popular (by many people) vote, for a period of four years. They can serve two terms (periods of four years). Before 2008, people could be the president for only one term.

The President of Ecuador right now is Guillermo Lasso since May 24, 2021. He was elected as the president on April 11, 2021.

List of presidents of Ecuador

Living former presidents

References
324


Year 324 (CCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 July 3 – Battle of Adrianople: Emperor Constantine the Great defeats his rival Licinius near Adrianople.  They retreat to Byzantium. He invades Thrace with a Visgothic force and raids the countryside.  
 July – Battle of Hellespont: Crispus, destroys Licinius' naval fleet in the Dardanelles.
 September 18 – Battle of Chrysopolis: Constantine I defeats Licinius at Chrysopolis.  He becomes sole Emperor.
 December 19 – Licinius gives up his position as Emperor.

Religion 
 St Peter's Church is founded in Rome.
 Eustathius becomes bishop of Antioch.

Births 
 Chu Suanzi, empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 384)

Deaths 
 December 20 – Philogonus, Patriarch of Antioch
 Guo Pu, Chinese writer (b. 276)
 Wang Dun, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 266)
 Zhang Mao, ruler of Former Liang (b. 277)

320s
339


Year 339 (CCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Constantius II goes to his territory in the East. Persia under king Shapur II is attacking Mesopotamia. For the next 11 years the two powers battle with no real winner.

By topic

Religion 
 Pope Julius I gives refuge at Rome to Athanasius.
 Eusebius of Nicomedia is made bishop of Constantinople.  Another Arian becomes bishop of Alexandria.

Births 
 Aurelius Ambrosius, bishop of Milan (approximate date) 
 He Fani, empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 404)
 Shi Shi, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao (d. 349)

Deaths 
 Abaye, Babylonian amora
 Eusebius of Caesarea, bishop and first church historian (approximate date)
 Shemon Bar Sabbae, bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon 
 Wang Dao, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (b. 276)
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238


Year 238 (CCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Maximinus Thrax battles against the Carpians on the Danube in Moesia (Balkans). 
 March 7 – Romans in Africa go against Maximinus and elect Marcus Antonius Gordianus (Africanus) as emperor. 
 April 12 – Battle of Carthage: Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus invade Africa. Gordian II is killed.  Gordian I commits suicide.
 April 22 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Senate outlaws Maximinus. Pupienus and Balbinus go to the throne.
 Maximinus gets to the town Aquileia in northern Italy. His army has famine and disease.
 July 29 – The Praetorian Guard kill Pupienus and Balbinus. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, is made new emperor. 
 Future Roman Emperor Valerian becomes princeps senatus.
 The Colosseum is restored after being damaged.
 The Goths, coming from Ukraine, cross the Danube and ruin the Roman Empire up to the border with Anatolia.

Asia 
 The Cao Wei general Sima Yi destroys the northeastern Chinese warlord Gongsun Yuan.

Births 
 Empress Yang Yan, first wife of Emperor Wu (d. 274)
 Wen Yang, general of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 291)

Deaths 
 April 12 – Roman emperors Gordian I (suicide) and Gordian II (killed in battle)
 June 24 – Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor
 Maximinus the Younger, Roman Emperor
 July 29 – Pupienus and Balbinus, Roman Emperors
 Gongsun Yuan, warlord of Liaodong
 Lun Zhi, general of Liaodong
 Jia Fan, advisor Liaodong
 Chosroes I, King of Armenia (assassinated)
209


Year 209 (CCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Publius Septimius Geta gets the titles of Imperator and Augustus from his father, emperor Septimius Severus.
 Severus plans to take the land north of Scotland. The Roman army reaches Aberdeen. The Scottish tribes begin guerrilla warfare against the Romans.

Asia 
 In India, beginning of the reign of Chandashri, Satavahana king of the Andhra.

Births 
 Guan Lu (d. 256)
 Sun Deng, eldest son of Sun Quan (d. 241)
 Xiahou Xuan, minister of  Wei, son of Xiahou Shang (d. 254)

Deaths 
 Chen Lan, general under Yuan Shu
 Jin Xuan
 Liu Qi, son of Liu Biao
 Saint Alban (possible death date)
205


Year 205 (CCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and his brother Publius Septimius Geta Caesar become Roman Consuls.
 Hadrian's Wall is fixed.
 Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect and father-in-law of Caracalla, is killed.
 Aemilius Papinianus becomes praetorian prefect.

Asia 
 Cao Cao defeats and kills Yuan Tan, the eldest son of his rival Yuan Shao, in the Battle of Nanpi

Births 
 Cao Rui, second emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 239)
 Sima Wang, general of Wei and the Jin Dynasty (d. 271)
 Shan Tao, Chinese taoist (d. 283)
 Plotinus (according to his student Porphyry) (d. 270)
 Xin Xianying, daughter of Xin Pi (d. 284)

Deaths 
 Guo Tu, advisor under Yuan Shao
 Yuan Tan, eldest son of Yuan Shao
197


Year 197 (CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats Decimus Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). 
 Septimius Severus returns to Rome.  He has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate killed. 
 Septimius Severus forms new naval units.
 The Roman army goes east to stop a Parthian invasion of Mesopotamia. They loot the royal palace at Ctesiphon and take many people as slaves.

By topic

Arts and sciences 
 Galen's major work on medicines, Pharmacologia, is published.

Religion 
 A Christian council is held in Edessa.

Births 
 Deng Ai, Wei general (d. 264)

Deaths 
 February 19 – Clodius Albinus, rival for Roman Emperor (b. 150)
 Cao Ang, first son of Cao Cao (b. 175)
 Cao Anmin, nephew of Cao Cao
 Dian Wei, bodyguard to warlord Cao Cao
 Guo Si, general under Dong Zhuo  (b. 146)
 Huche'er, general under Zhang Xiu
 Li Jue, general under Dong Zhuo
 Liang Gang, general under Yuan Shu
 Qiao Rui, general during the Han Dynasty
 Yue Jiu, general during the Han Dynasty
218


Year 218 (CCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 May 16 – Elagabalus, age 14, is made emperor of Rome.
 June 8 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats the forces of Macrinus.
 Diadumenianus, son of Macrinus, escapes to the Parthian court.  He is captured at Zeugma and also put to death.

Births 
 Gallienus, later Roman emperor (d. 268)

Deaths
 June
 Macrinus, Roman emperor (b. 165)
 Diadumenian, son of Macrinus
 Gan Ning (approximate date) (b. 175)
 Han Hao, general under Cao Cao
 Jin Yi, minister of Han Dynasty
 Lei Tong
 Yue Jin, commander under Cao Cao

210s
239


Year 239 (CCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

China 
 In the Chinese Kingdom of Wei, Wei Qi Wang succeeds Cao Rui (Wei Ming Di). 
 Chinese discover the island of Taiwan.

By topic

Religion 
 Origen publishes the Old Testament in five languages.

Births

Deaths 
 January 22 – Cao Rui (Wei Ming Di), emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 205)
 Pan Jun, official of Wu

230s
311


Year 311 (CCCXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 May 5 – Emperor Galerius says there is religious freedom .  He issues his Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. He dies at age 51.
 Maximinus II divides the Eastern Empire. He starts to persecute Christians again.
 Maxentius, Roman usurper, takes the African provinces from Domitius Alexander.
 Maxentius builds the Circus of Maxentius near the Via Appia. 
 December 3 – Diocletianus dies in Split, Croatia.

China 
 Jin Huaidi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is captured at Luoyang. The capital city is looted by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Huns).

By topic

Religion 
 July 2 – Pope Miltiades succeeds Pope Eusebius as the 32nd pope.
 The Donatist split occurs in the African church.

Births

Deaths 
 Domitius Alexander, Roman usurper (approximate date)
 December 3 – Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Roman Emperor
 May 5 – Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman emperor
 November 25 – Saint Peter, Patriarch of Alexandria (martyred)
 Sima Yue, prince and regent of the Jin Dynasty
241


Year 241 (CCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Winter – Emperor Gordian III reaches Antioch.  He gets his army ready to fight against the Persians.
 Timesitheus becomes Praetorian Prefect

Persia 
 Shapur I succeeds his father Ardashir I as king of Persia.
 The ancient city of Bagram (Afghanistan) is abandoned.
 Shapur I adds parts of the Kushan Empire.

Europe 
 November 1 – The Battle of Samhain is fought in Ireland.

Births 
 Cao Mao, emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (possible date) (d. 260)

Deaths 
 Ardashir I, first ruler of the Sassanid dynasty
 Zhuge Jin, minister of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu, older brother of Zhuge Liang (b. 174)
 Sun Deng, eldest son of Sun Quan (b. 209)

240s
243


Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena (Syria). King Shapur I must run away to the Euphrates.
 Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I goes back to Persia.
 Emperor Gordian III picks Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect.

Births 
 Sun Liang, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (d. 260)

Deaths 
 Gu Yong, minister of Wu (b. 168)
 Kan Ze, advisor of Wu
 Timesitheus, advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)

240s
313


Year 313 (CCCXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 February 3 – Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Licinius give religious freedom for all.  They end the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
 Emperor Maximinus II fights at Bosphorus.
 April 30 – Battle of Tzirallum: Licinius defeats his rival Maximinus II.  He becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. Maximinus runs away to Nicomedia and commits suicide.

Asia 
 March 14 – Emperor Jin Huidi is killed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao). 
 Crown prince Jin Mindi, age 13, becomes the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty.

By topic

Art 
 Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova), Rome, is finished.

Religion 
 Constantine I and Licinius accept Christianity.
 October 2 – Lateran Synod: Donatism is made a heresy.
 Arius preaches of the human nature of Jesus.

Births 
 Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologian (approximate date)
 Shi Hong, emperor of the Chinese Jie state (d. 334)

Deaths 
 Achillas, Patriarch of Alexandria
 Dowager Zhang, empress of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao)
 March 14 – Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 284)
 Maximinus II, Roman Emperor (b. 270)
 Zhang Huiguang, empress of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao)

310s
217


Year 217 (CCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 April 8 – Caracalla is killed by his legionaries near Edessa. Marcus Opellius Macrinus head of the Praetorian Guard, calls himself Roman emperor. 
 Summer – Battle of Nisibis: The Roman army is defeated in a three days battle by the Parthians at Nisibis (southern Turkey).
 King Artabanus IV signs a peace treaty with Rome.  
 Macrinus, of Mauritania, becomes the first equestrian Roman emperor. 
 Empress Julia kills herself. 
 The Colosseum is badly damaged by fire.  It destroys the wooden upper levels of the amphitheater.

By topic

Religion 
 December 20 – The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope. Hippolytus says he should not be Pope.
 Hippolytus begins his "pontificate" as antipope.
 Ciriacus succeeds Philadelphus as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births 
 Fu Xuan, Chinese poet (d. 278)
 Hua He, minister under the Kingdom of Wu (d. 279)
 Jia Chong, general of the Jin Dynasty (d. 282)
 Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji, wife of Sima Zhao (d. 268)

Deaths 
 April 8 – Caracalla, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 188)
 Julia Domna, Roman Empress (suicide) (b. 170)
 December 20 – Pope Zephyrinus
 Chen Lin, minister of Han Dynasty  
 Lu Su, advisor to Sun Quan, sympathetic to Liu Bei (b. 172)
 Wang Can, Chinese poet, scholar, and statesman of Cao Wei (b. 177)
 Sima Lang, official of Han Dynasty (b. 171)

210s
470 BC


Year 470 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 

 Pausanias hides in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.

By topic

Architecture 
 The construction of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece.

Art 

 The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created.  It was for a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now kept at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
 Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" (an earthenware piece that is used to mix water and wine) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (approximate date).

Births 

 Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 400 BC)
 Mozi, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 390 BC)

Deaths 

 Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars

470s BC
411 BC


Year 411 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 
 The democracy of Athens is overthrown.  A "Council of Four Hundred" is set up. * Phrynichus, the leader of the extremists, is killed. The traditional constitution is put back.
 The Athenian navy under Thrasybulus calls Alcibiades back from Sardis.

By topic

Literature 
 Euripides' play Iphigeneia in Tauris is performed.
 Aristophanes' plays Lysistrata and Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria are performed.

Births 

 Timoleon, Greek statesman and general (approximate date) (d. 337 BC)

Deaths 

 Antiphon, Athenian politician and orator (b. 480 BC)
 Phrynicus, Athenian general (assassinated)
405 BC


Year 405 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 
 The Athenian fleet follows the Spartan admiral, Lysander, to the Hellespont. The Athenian fleet is destroyed in the Battle of Aegospotami.
 The Spartan king Pausanias lays siege to Athens. Lysander's fleet blockades Piraeus. This starves Athens.
Theramenes tries to negotiate with Lysander. He is away for three months.

Sicily 
 Dionysius the Elder rises to power as the tyrant of Syracuse. He makes peace with the Carthaginian general. Carthage is in control of most of Sicily.
 Dionysius the Elder expands his power. He builds a wall around Syracuse. The Greek citizens of Naxos, Catana, and Leontini are removed from their cities. Many of them are made slaves.

By topic

Drama 
 Aristophanes' play The Frogs is performed.
 Euripides' The Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis are performed at the Dionysia and win first prize.

Art 
 The Erechtheum, which includes The Porch of Maidens (Caryatid Porch), is completed in the Ionian style on the Acropolis in Athens after 16 years of building.

Deaths 

 Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 480 BC)

400s BC
570s BC



Events and trends
579 BC—Servius Tullius succeeds Lucius Tarquinius Priscus as the sixth King of Rome. 
575 BC—Ishtar Gate and throne room wall, from Babylon (Iraq) is made. It is now at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Vorderasiatisches Museum.
575 BC—Battle of Yanling in China, the army of the State of Jin defeats the forces of the State of Chu in ancient Henan province.
575 BC–550 BC—Temples and public buildings begin to be in Rome. Main temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus is built.
573 BC—Nemean Games founded at Nemea. 
572 BC—Death of Zhou jian wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
571 BC-On 25 November Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
571 BC—Zhou ling wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
570 BC—Amasis II succeeds Apries as king of Egypt.
c. 570 BC—François Vase, black figure decoration on a volute krater, is made by potter—Ergotimos and painter—Kleitias. It is now at Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence, Italy.
570 BC–560 BC—Berlin Kore, from a cemetery at Keratea, near Athens, is made. It is now at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.
c. 570 BC-Death of Sappho.

Significant people
 576 BC—Birth of Cyrus the Great, later King of Anshan, and architect of the Persian Empire.
 570 BC—Birth of Xenophanes
 c.570 BC—Birth of Pythagoras on the island of Samos, mathematician (d. c. 475 BC)
 Ergotimos—potter
 Kleitias—painter
473 BC


Year 473 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

China 
 The State of Wu is added by the State of Yue.

Japan 
 The Hikawa Shrine is formed in Saitama, Saitama.

Deaths 

 King Fuchai of Wu, the last king of Wu in Zhou Dynasty China

470s BC
350


Year 350 (CCCL) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 January 18 – Emperor Constans I is very unliked. Magnus Magnentius is made emperor at Autun (Gaul).
 January – Constans I runs away to Spain.  He is killed. Magnentius rules the Western Roman Empire.  He is nicer to Christians and Pagans. 
 March 1 – Vetranio is asked by Constantina to make himself Caesar. Constantius accepts the new emperor.
 June 3 – Iulius Nepotianus, Roman usurper, calls himself "emperor".  He enters Rome with a group of gladiators.
 June 30 – Nepotianus is defeated and killed by Marcellinus. 
 December 25 – Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia). He is forced to give up his title.

Asia 
 About this time the Huns begin to invade the Sassanid Empire.
 The city of Anbar (Iraq) is founded by king Shapur II.
 The Wei-Jie war breaks out in North China.

By topic

Art 
 The church of Santa Constanza in Rome is finished.

Births 
 Honoratus, archbishop of Arles (approximate date)
 Hypatia of Alexandria, female Neoplatonist philosopher (approximate date)
 Murong Wei, emperor of the Xianbei state Former Yan (d. 385)
 Plutarch of Athens, Greek philosopher (approximate date)
 Theodore of Mopsuestia, bishop and theologian (approximate date) 
 Zhang Xuanjing, ruler of the Chinese state Former Liang (d. 363)

Deaths 
 Constans I, Roman Emperor 
 Eutropia, mother of Nepotianus
 June 30 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
 Shi Jian, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao

References
372


Year 372 (CCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Valentinian I is against the Alamanni, Quadi and  Sarmatians. His subordinates are dealing with Firmus,  Roman usurper, in Africa and the Picts in Britain.

Europe 
 The Huns attack the Tervingi on the Dniester.

China 
 Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Feidi is dethroned as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He is replaced by Jin Jianwendi.
 September 12 – Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi. Empress Chu Suanzi serves as regent.
 The first diplomatic ties are made between the Korean kingdom of Baekje and the Chinese court of the Jin Dynasty.

By topic

Arts and sciences 
 The national academy of Chinese learning, called Taehak, is made in the kingdom of Goguryeo (Korea).

Religion 
 Gregory of Nyssa becomes bishop.
 Buddhism is the official religion of Gorguryeo.
 Saint Augustine adopts Manichaeism.
 Valentinian I bans Manichaean meetings.

Births 
 Pei Songzhi, Chinese historian (d. 451)

Deaths 
 Jin Jianwendi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 320)
 Maximus of Ephesus, Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
 Sabbas the Goth, Christian reader and saint (b. 334)

370s