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Theodosius I abolished numerous pagan customs in the Roman Empire .
393 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	385/386
Buddhist calendar	936/937 (southern Buddhism); 935/936 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	51st (52nd) cycle , year of the water snake癸巳 ( at the beginning of the year water dragon 壬辰)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 292nd Olympiad , official end of the Olympics
Jewish calendar	4153/54 (September 21/22)
Coptic calendar	109/110
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MCXLVI (1146); Diocletian Era : 109/110 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 703/704 (turn of the year April); Syria: 704/705 (New Year October)
Spanish era	431
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	449/450 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Solidus of Honorius

• January 23 : Theodosius I makes his son Honorius co-emperor in the Roman Empire .

Culture and religion

The Olympic Stadium today

• Theodosius I abolished the Panhellenic Olympic Games , the Oracle of Delphi , the Mysteries of Eleusis and numerous other pagan customs and thus smashed the foundations of paganism in the east.

nature and environment

• November 20 : Total solar eclipse in the Balkans and Asia Minor.

Born

• Theodoret , Bishop of Kyrrhos and theologian († around 460 )

Died

• 393/ 394 : Ausonius , Roman prince educator and poet (* around 310 )
• after 393: Libanios , Greek rhetorician (* 314 )