396

This article is about the year 396. For the number, see 396 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	360s  370s  380s  – 390s –  400s  410s  420s
Years:	393 394 395 – 396 – 397 398 399

396 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

396 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	396 CCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1149
Assyrian calendar	5146
Bengali calendar	−197
Berber calendar	1346
Buddhist calendar	940
Burmese calendar	−242
Byzantine calendar	5904–5905
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3092 or 3032     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3093 or 3033
Coptic calendar	112–113
Discordian calendar	1562
Ethiopian calendar	388–389
Hebrew calendar	4156–4157
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	452–453
- Shaka Samvat	318–319
- Kali Yuga	3497–3498
Holocene calendar	10396
Iranian calendar	226 BP – 225 BP
Islamic calendar	233 BH – 232 BH
Julian calendar	396 CCCXCVI
Korean calendar	2729
Minguo calendar	1516 before ROC 民前1516年
Seleucid era	707/708 AG
Thai solar calendar	938–939

A ivory diptych of Stilicho (right) with his wife Serena and son Eucherius

Year 396 (CCCXCVI) was a leap 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 Augustus (or, less frequently, year 1149 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 396 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

• Stilicho, Roman general (magister militum), controls the young emperor Honorius as his regent and becomes the actual ruler of the Western Roman Empire. He enlists the Alemanni and the Franks to defend the Rhine frontier.
• The Visigoths, led by Alaric I, rampage through Greece and plunder Corinth, Argos and Sparta. They destroy the Temple of Eleusis and harry the Peloponnese. Stilicho makes peace with the Goths, and allows them to settle in Epirus (Balkans).
• The Gothic leaders – the Ostrogoth, Tribigild, and Gainas, a former Visigothic general of the Roman army – are terrorising Asia Minor and the region around Constantinople and force emperor Arcadius to pardon them.
• The Huns occupy the Walachian Plain (modern Romania).

China

• Emperor Jin Andi, age 14, succeeds his father Jin Xiaowudi as ruler of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After he is murdered by his concubine consort Zhang.

Births

• Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum) (approximate date)
• Petronius Maximus, Western Roman Emperor (approximate date)

Deaths

• Dowager Helan, mother of emperor Wei Daowudi (b. 351)
• Duan Yuanfei, empress and wife of emperor Murong Chui
• May 30 – Isaac of Dalmatia, Christian monk and saint
• Jin Xiaowudi, emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (b. 362)
• Murong Chui, general and founder of Later Yan (b. 326)