402

This article is about the year 402. For the number, see 402 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	370s  380s  390s  – 400s –  410s  420s  430s
Years:	399 400 401 – 402 – 403 404 405

402 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

402 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	402 CDII
Ab urbe condita	1155
Assyrian calendar	5152
Bengali calendar	−191
Berber calendar	1352
Buddhist calendar	946
Burmese calendar	−236
Byzantine calendar	5910–5911
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3098 or 3038     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3099 or 3039
Coptic calendar	118–119
Discordian calendar	1568
Ethiopian calendar	394–395
Hebrew calendar	4162–4163
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	458–459
- Shaka Samvat	324–325
- Kali Yuga	3503–3504
Holocene calendar	10402
Iranian calendar	220 BP – 219 BP
Islamic calendar	227 BH – 226 BH
Julian calendar	402 CDII
Korean calendar	2735
Minguo calendar	1510 before ROC 民前1510年
Seleucid era	713/714 AG
Thai solar calendar	944–945

A statue of Siddhartha Gautama (India)

Year 402 (CDII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Arcadius and Honorius (or, less frequently, year 1155 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 402 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

• The Visigoths advance on Mediolanum (modern Milan) and laid siege to Asti in Liguria. King Alaric I sends envoys to negotiate a peace, but the Roman government refuses to make deals with "barbarians."
• April 6 – Battle of Pollentia: Stilicho recalls troops from Britain and the Rhine frontier to defend Italy. He decides to attack the Goths on Easter Sunday and manages to capture Alaric's wife and children.
• Emperors Arcadius and his younger brother Honorius become Roman consuls.

Asia

• King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (Korea) defeats the forces of Later Yan, seizing some of their border fortresses.
• The Avars, led by Shelun (Chö-louen), having defeated the Gaoju Dingling (Kao-kiu Ting-ling) near Kobbo, establish a nomadic empire that ranges from Mongolia to the Irtysh.
• Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk, makes a pilgrimage to India initiating Sino-Indian relations. Stirred by his faith to Buddhism, he visit the sites of Siddhartha Gautama's life.

By topic

Religion

• Jerome writes "Apologiae contra Rufinum" and "Liber tertius seu ultima responsio adversus scripta Rufini".
• The Pure Land school of Buddhism founds a monastery upon the top of Mount Lushan.
• Porphyry of Gaza orders the destruction of pagan temples in Gaza.

Deaths

• Empress Dowager Ding, mother of Murong Sheng
• Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and intellectual
• Sima Yuanxian, regent during the Jin Dynasty (b. 382)
• Tufa Lilugu, prince of the Xianbei state Southern Liang