334

Year 334 (CCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Optatus and Caesonius (or, less frequently, year 1087 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 334 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.

This article is about the year 334. For the novel by Thomas M. Disch, see 334 (novel).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century 4th century 5th century
Decades:	310s 320s 330s 340s 350s
Years:	331 332 333 334 335 336 337

334 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	334 CCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1087
Assyrian calendar	5084
Balinese saka calendar	255–256
Bengali calendar	−259
Berber calendar	1284
Buddhist calendar	878
Burmese calendar	−304
Byzantine calendar	5842–5843
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3030 or 2970     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3031 or 2971
Coptic calendar	50–51
Discordian calendar	1500
Ethiopian calendar	326–327
Hebrew calendar	4094–4095
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	390–391
- Shaka Samvat	255–256
- Kali Yuga	3434–3435
Holocene calendar	10334
Iranian calendar	288 BP – 287 BP
Islamic calendar	297 BH – 296 BH
Javanese calendar	215–216
Julian calendar	334 CCCXXXIV
Korean calendar	2667
Minguo calendar	1578 before ROC 民前1578年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1134
Seleucid era	645/646 AG
Thai solar calendar	876–877
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 460 or 79 or −693     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 461 or 80 or −692

Gladiators from the Zliten mosaic (Libya)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Flavius Dalmatius puts down a revolt in Cyprus led by Calocaerus. Calocaerus is brought to Tarsus (Cilicia) and executed.[1]
• The Goths protect the Danube frontier against an invasion by the Vandals.[2][3]
• Emperor Constantine the Great reauthorises gladiatorial combat.
• Julius Firmicus Maternus makes the first recorded observation of solar prominences, during an annular eclipse (July 17).[4]

Births

• Huiyuan, Chinese Buddhist teacher and founder of the Donglin Temple (d. 416)[5]
• Sabbas the Goth, Christian reader and saint (d. 372)[6]
• Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, Roman historian and politician (d. 394)[7]

Deaths

• December 5 – Li Ban, emperor of Chang Han (b. 288)
• Calocaerus, Roman usurper[1]
• Empress Dowager Cheng
• Li Xiong, first emperor of Cheng Han (b. 274)[8]
• Shi Hong, emperor of the Chinese Jie state (b. 313)[9]
• Tao Kan, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 259)[10]
• Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (b. 252)[11]

References

1. Pohlsander, Hans A. (2004). The Emperor Constantine (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-415-31938-6.
2. Kraitser, Charles V. (1837). The Poles in the United States of America. Kiderlen and Stollmeyer. p. 17.
3. Townsend, George Henry (1862). The Manual of Dates (2nd ed.). Routledge, Warne & Routledge. p. 757.
4. "Chronology of Discoveries About the Sun". MrEclipse.com. 1999. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
5. Zürcher, Erik (1959). The Buddhist conquest of China. 1. Brill Archive. p. 16.
6. Hodgkin, Thomas (1892). Italy and Her Invaders. 1 (2nd ed.). Clarendon Press. p. 178.
7. Adkins, Lesley; Adkins, Roy A. (2004). Handbook to life in ancient Rome (2nd ed.). Infobase Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-8160-5026-0.
8. Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner; Mittag, Achim (2008). Conceiving the empire: China and Rome compared. Oxford University Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-19-921464-8.
9. Frédéric, Louis (1977). Encyclopaedia of Asian civilizations. 3. p. 178.
10. Pearce, Scott (2001). Spiro, Audrey G.; Ebrey, Patricia Buckley (eds.). Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200–600. Harvard Univ Asia Center. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-674-00523-5.
11. Liu, Cheng-Tsai; Zheng-Cai, Liu; Hua, Ka (1999). A Study of Daoist Acupuncture. Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-891845-08-6.