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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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309 by topic |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 309 CCCIX |
Ab urbe condita | 1062 |
Assyrian calendar | 5059 |
Balinese saka calendar | 230–231 |
Bengali calendar | −284 |
Berber calendar | 1259 |
Buddhist calendar | 853 |
Burmese calendar | −329 |
Byzantine calendar | 5817–5818 |
Chinese calendar | Mậu ThìnNăm (EarthDragon) 3006 or 2799 — to — Kỷ Tị năm (EarthSnake) 3007 or 2800 |
Coptic calendar | 25–26 |
Discordian calendar | 1475 |
Ethiopian calendar | 301–302 |
Hebrew calendar | 4069–4070 |
Hindu calendars | |
-Vikram Samvat | 365–366 |
-Shaka Samvat | 230–231 |
-Kali Yuga | 3409–3410 |
Holocene calendar | 10309 |
Iranian calendar | 313 BP – 312 BP |
Islamic calendar | 323 BH – 322 BH |
Javanese calendar | 189–190 |
Julian calendar | 309 CCCIX |
Korean calendar | 2642 |
Minguo calendar | 1603 beforeROC Dân trước 1603 năm |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1159 |
Seleucid era | 620/621AG |
Thai solar calendar | 851–852 |
Tibetan calendar | Dương thổ long năm (male Earth-Dragon) 435 or 54 or −718 — to — Âm thổ xà năm (female Earth-Snake) 436 or 55 or −717 |
Year309(CCCIX) was acommon year starting on Saturday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.In theRoman Empire,it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Licinianus and Constantius[1](or, less frequently,year 1062Ab urbe condita). The denomination 309 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar erabecame the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
[edit]By place
[edit]Roman Empire
[edit]- Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus,thePraetorian Prefectof EmperorMaxentius,defeats the usurperDomitius Alexanderand purges Africa of his supporters.
Persia
[edit]- KingHormizd II,ruler of theSassanid Empire,demands that the king of theGhassanidspays tribute. After the king refuses, Hormizd invades Ghassanid territory. The Ghassanids seek aid fromMaximinus Daza,but before a Roman army can arrive, Hormizd defeats the Ghassanid army and kills their king. A Ghassanid force then ambushes Hormizd's small retinue while the latter is on a hunting trip, and the Sasanian king is mortally wounded. He dies after a 7-year reign.[2]
- Hormizd is succeeded by his infant sonShapur IIfollowing the brief reign and murder ofAdur Narseh.[3]
By topic
[edit]Religion
[edit]- PopeMarcellus Iis banished fromRomeby EmperorMaxentius.[4]
- April 18–Eusebiussucceeds Marcellus I as the 31st pope, but is himself banished onAugust 17toSicily(these events may have also taken place in310).[5]
Births
[edit]- Shapur II(the Great), king of theSassanid Empire(d.379)
Deaths
[edit]- January 16–Marcellus I,bishop ofRome(b.255)
- Adur Narseh,king of the Sassanid Empire
- Elias and companions,Christian martyrs
- Hormizd II,king of the Sassanid Empire
References
[edit]- ^Smith, William (1862).A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography (Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology).HarperCollins.p. 1008.
- ^Bal'ami, Abu Ali.Annals, Chapter 15.
- ^Smith Williams, Henry (March 16, 2019).The Historians' History of the World.Creative Media Partners.ISBN9781010421023.
- ^Johann Joseph Ignaz, von Doellinger; Baur, Ferdinand Christian; Gieseler, Johann Carl Ludwig; Plummer, Alfred; Wordsworth, Christopher (1876).Hippolytus and Callistus: or, the Church of Rome in the first half of the third century.p. 66.
- ^Bower, Archibald (1844).The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to A.D. 1758 · Volume 1.Griffith and Simon. p. 41.