390

This article is about the year 390. For the number, see 390 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	360s  370s  380s  – 390s –  400s  410s  420s
Years:	387 388 389 – 390 – 391 392 393

390 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

390 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	390 CCCXC
Ab urbe condita	1143
Assyrian calendar	5140
Bengali calendar	−203
Berber calendar	1340
Buddhist calendar	934
Burmese calendar	−248
Byzantine calendar	5898–5899
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3086 or 3026     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3087 or 3027
Coptic calendar	106–107
Discordian calendar	1556
Ethiopian calendar	382–383
Hebrew calendar	4150–4151
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	446–447
- Shaka Samvat	312–313
- Kali Yuga	3491–3492
Holocene calendar	10390
Iranian calendar	232 BP – 231 BP
Islamic calendar	239 BH – 238 BH
Julian calendar	390 CCCXC
Korean calendar	2723
Minguo calendar	1522 before ROC 民前1522年
Seleucid era	701/702 AG
Thai solar calendar	932–933

Emperor Theodosius I and Ambrose, by Anthony van Dyck

Year 390 (CCCXC) 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 Augustus and Neoterius (or, less frequently, year 1143 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 390 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

• April – Massacre of Thessalonica: Resentment among the citizens of Thessalonica (Macedonia), after the arrest of a popular charioteer, breaks out into violence. Butheric, military commander of Illyricum, is murdered. Emperor Theodosius I orders vengeance, despite the pleas of Ambrose, bishop of Milan, for mercy, and more than 7,000 inhabitants are massacred by the Roman army.
• Ambrose retires to Milan (residence of Theodosius I) and refusing to celebrate a mass in the emperor's presence, until he repents for ordering the massacre in Thessalonica. Theodosius filled with remorse, kneels in humility and strips of his royal purple, before the altar of the cathedral in Milan, humbling himself before the Christian church.
• The Visigoths and Huns, led by Alaric, invade Thrace. Stilicho, high-ranking general (magister militum) of Vandal origin, raises an army and begins a campaign against the Goths.
• Theodosius I brings an obelisk from Egypt to the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

India

• Rudrasena II becomes emperor of Vakataka in the Deccan Plateau (India). In the same year he marries Prabhavatigupta, daughter of the Gupta king Chandragupta II.

By topic

Art

• C. 390–401 – Priestess of Bacchus: Late Antiquity ivory diptych; documents the relationship of the senators Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. It commemorates the marriage of the two families. The right panel is inscribed "Symmachorum", with an elaborately dressed priestess who makes an offer on an altar. It is now kept at Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Religion

• Jerome, having finished the Latin translation of the New Testament, begins translating the Old Testament.
• The Kama Sutra is revised by Vatsyayana.

Births

• Bleda, king of the Huns (approximate date)
• Gao Yun, duke of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (d. 487)
• Prosper of Aquitaine, disciple and Christian writer (approximate date)
• Romanus of Condat, hermit and saint (approximate date)
• Simeon Stylites, Christian Stylite (approximate date)
• Xie Hui, general of the Liu Song Dynasty (d. 426)

Deaths

• Apollinaris of Laodicea, bishop and theologian
• Aurelius Victor, Roman historian and politician
• Chen Guinü, queen consort of Jin Xiaowudi
• Diodorus of Tarsus, bishop and monastic reformer