284

Calendar overview 284

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284
Diocletian is by the army for anti-emperor in the Roman Empire proclaimed.
284 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	276/277
Buddhist calendar	827/828 (southern Buddhism); 826/827 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	49th (50th) cycle , year of the wood dragon甲辰 ( at the beginning of the year water rabbit 癸卯)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 265th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	4044/45 (29/30 August)
Coptic calendar	Beginning of the era
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MXXXVII (1037)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 594/595 (New Year April); Syria: 595/596 (New Year October)
Spanish era	322
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	340/341 (turn of the year April)

Events

Antoninian of the Numerian

March: Imperial crisis of the 3rd century in the Roman Empire : Emperor Numerian suffers an inflammation of the eyes in Emesa and begins to lead his army back to Rome .
The Bagauden , a group of Gallic peasants, rise up against Roman rule.
November: Numerian is found dead in his litter near Chalcedon . The circumstances surrounding his death are controversial. The Praetorian prefect Lucius Flavius (?) Aper is accused of murder and executed.
November 20 : Diocletian is appointed anti-emperor by the eastern army - against Numerian's brother Carinus , who continues to rule the west of the empire. Carinus leaves Rome to face Diocletian.

Julian's aureus

Marcus Aurelius Sabinus Iulianus takes advantage of the emperor's absence and declares himself to be the opposing emperor in Siscia in Pannonia . There is an important mint in the city.
Since the Praetorians , the emperor's bodyguards, submit to the Roman Senate , Diocletian founds the Jovians and the Herculians , who will take over the protection of the (eastern) Roman emperors for 700 years.

The August 29 284 applies retroactively as the beginning of the era of the martyrs .