388

This article is about the year 388. For the number, see 388 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	350s  360s  370s  – 380s –  390s  400s  410s
Years:	385 386 387 – 388 – 389 390 391

388 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

388 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	388 CCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1141
Assyrian calendar	5138
Bengali calendar	−205
Berber calendar	1338
Buddhist calendar	932
Burmese calendar	−250
Byzantine calendar	5896–5897
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3084 or 3024     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3085 or 3025
Coptic calendar	104–105
Discordian calendar	1554
Ethiopian calendar	380–381
Hebrew calendar	4148–4149
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	444–445
- Shaka Samvat	310–311
- Kali Yuga	3489–3490
Holocene calendar	10388
Iranian calendar	234 BP – 233 BP
Islamic calendar	241 BH – 240 BH
Julian calendar	388 CCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	2721
Minguo calendar	1524 before ROC 民前1524年
Seleucid era	699/700 AG
Thai solar calendar	930–931

Year 388 (CCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1141 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 388 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

• Battle of the Save: Emperor Theodosius I defeats Magnus Maximus near Emona (modern Slovenia). Theodosius is in command of an army including Goths, Huns and Alans. Valentinian II, now 17, is restored as Roman Emperor.
• August 28 – Magnus Maximus surrenders at Aquileia and is executed. Theodosius I devotes himself to gluttony and voluptuous living. Maximus' son Flavius Victor is executed at Trier by Valentinian's magister militum Arbogast.

Persia

• King Shapur III dies after a reign in which he has partitioned Armenia with the Roman Empire. He is succeeded by his son Bahram IV, who becomes the twelfth Sassanid king of Persia.

India

• Emperor Chandragupta II, ruler of the Gupta Empire, begins a war against the Shaka Dynasty in West India.

By topic

Religion

• Paternus becomes bishop of the Episcopal see of Braga (Portugal).
• Isaac, age 50, is named Catholicos (spiritual head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
• Jerome moves to Palestine, where he spend the rest of his life as a hermit near Bethlehem.
• A group of Christians storms the synagogue of the city Callinicum (Syria), at the Euphrates.

Births

• Yao Hong, emperor of the Chinese Qiang state Later Qin (d. 417)

Deaths

• Flavius Victor, son of Magnus Maximus and co-emperor (Augustus)
• August 28 – Magnus Maximus, Western Roman Emperor
• Qifu Guoren, ruler of the Xianbei state Western Qin
• Shapur III, king of the Sassanid Empire (Persia)
• Themistius, statesman, rhetorician and philosopher (b. 317)
• Xie Xuan, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 343)