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288
288 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	280/281
Buddhist calendar	831/832 (southern Buddhism); 830/831 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	49th (50th) cycle , year of the earth-monkey戊申 ( at the beginning of the year fire-sheep 丁未)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 266th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	4048/49 (September 12/13)
Coptic calendar	4/5
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MXLI (1041)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 598/599 (New Year April); Syria: 599/600 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	326
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	344/345 (turn of the year April)

Events

• Emperor Diocletian begins a campaign against the Teutons in the province of Raetia .
• Co-emperor Maximian begins building a new fleet in Gallia Belgica after the commander of the British fleet, Carausius , renounced Rome and made himself Emperor of Britain.

Born

• around 288: Ammon , Christian monk from Egypt († before 356)

Died

• around 288: St. Sebastian , Roman soldier and Christian martyr

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