334

This article is about the year 334. For the number, see 334 (number). For the novel by Thomas M. Disch, see 334 (novel).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	300s  310s  320s  – 330s –  340s  350s  360s
Years:	331 332 333 – 334 – 335 336 337

334 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

334 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	334 CCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1087
Assyrian calendar	5084
Bengali calendar	−259
Berber calendar	1284
Buddhist calendar	878
Burmese calendar	−304
Byzantine calendar	5842–5843
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3030 or 2970     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3031 or 2971
Coptic calendar	50–51
Discordian calendar	1500
Ethiopian calendar	326–327
Hebrew calendar	4094–4095
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	390–391
- Shaka Samvat	256–257
- Kali Yuga	3435–3436
Holocene calendar	10334
Iranian calendar	288 BP – 287 BP
Islamic calendar	297 BH – 296 BH
Julian calendar	334 CCCXXXIV
Korean calendar	2667
Minguo calendar	1578 before ROC 民前1578年
Seleucid era	645/646 AG
Thai solar calendar	876–877

Gladiators from the Zliten mosaic (Libya)

Year 334 (CCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Optatus and Caesonius (or, less frequently, year 1087 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 334 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

• Flavius Dalmatius puts down a revolt in Cyprus led by Calocaerus. Calocaerus is brought to Tarsus (Cilicia) and executed.
• The Goths protect the Danube frontier against an invasion by the Vandals.
• Emperor Constantine the Great reauthorises gladiatorial combat.
• Julius Firmicus Maternus makes the first recorded observation of solar prominences, during an annular eclipse (July 17).

China

• The barbarian king Che Hou reigns in China. His sons try to assassinate him, but are caught and executed.

Births

• Huiyuan, Chinese Buddhist teacher and founder of the Donglin Temple (d. 416)
• Sabbas the Goth, Christian reader and saint (d. 372)
• Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, Roman historian and politician (d. 394)

Deaths

• Calocaerus, Roman usurper
• Empress Dowager Cheng
• Li Ban, emperor of Chang Han (b. 288)
• Li Xiong, first emperor of Cheng Han (b. 274)
• Shi Hong, emperor of the Chinese Jie state (b. 313)
• Tao Kan, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 259)
• Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (b. 252)