398

This article is about the year 398. For the number, see 398 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	360s  370s  380s  – 390s –  400s  410s  420s
Years:	395 396 397 – 398 – 399 400 401

398 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

398 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	398 CCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1151
Assyrian calendar	5148
Bengali calendar	−195
Berber calendar	1348
Buddhist calendar	942
Burmese calendar	−240
Byzantine calendar	5906–5907
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3094 or 3034     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3095 or 3035
Coptic calendar	114–115
Discordian calendar	1564
Ethiopian calendar	390–391
Hebrew calendar	4158–4159
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	454–455
- Shaka Samvat	320–321
- Kali Yuga	3499–3500
Holocene calendar	10398
Iranian calendar	224 BP – 223 BP
Islamic calendar	231 BH – 230 BH
Julian calendar	398 CCCXCVIII
Korean calendar	2731
Minguo calendar	1514 before ROC 民前1514年
Seleucid era	709/710 AG
Thai solar calendar	940–941

Saint John Chrysostom (Constantinople)

Year 398 (CCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (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 Eutychianus (or, less frequently, year 1151 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 398 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

• Gildonic Revolt: Gildo, Moorish prince, revolts against Roman rule in Mauretania, taking much of North Africa and cutting off the corn supply to Rome. Flavius Stilicho returns to Italy to raise troops against the rebels. After a short campaign in the desert, he defeats Gildo who flees and commits suicide by hanging.
• Eutropius, Roman general (magister militum), celebrates his victory over the Huns ("the wolves of the North") in a parade through Constantinople (see 395).
• An imperial edict obliges Roman landowners with plantations to yield 1/3 of their fields to the "barbarians" who have been settled in the Roman Empire.
• Emperor Honorius marries Stilicho's daughter Maria.
• Possible date for the Second Pictish War.

By topic

Religion

• John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople,this receives a delegation of clergy who want to close the pagan temples at Gaza (Palestine) where worshipers are openly defying the law. John works through the eunuch Eutropius, who has great power over emperor Arcadius, and within a week an imperial Constitution is issued closing the Roman temples, but the official appointed to execute this order is bribed.
• Augustine of Hippo completes his Confessions, an autobiography that recounts his intellectual and spiritual development.

Births

• Fan Ye, Chinese historian (d. 445)

Deaths

• Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologian
• Gildo, Moorish prince and comes Africae (governor)
• Lan Han, official of the Xianbei state Later Yan
• Murong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (b. 355)
• Murong Lin, Chinese prince of the Xianbei state Later Yan
• Murong Nong, Chinese prince of the Xianbei state Later Yan
• Nectarius, archbishop of Constantinople