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| Thai solar calendar | 826–827 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 410 or 29 or −743 — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 411 or 30 or −742 |
Year 284 (CCLXXXIV) was a leap 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 Carinus and Numerianus (or, less frequently, year 1037 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 284 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
- Emperor Asia Minor) on his way home to Rome. Suffering from an inflammation of the eyes, he travels in a closed litterin which soldiers find his decaying corpse.
- November 17 – Diocletian becomes emperor of Rome[1]
- domestici (household troops), Diocles, is chosen to be the new emperor. In a military assembly outside Nicomedia (modern İzmit, Turkey), Diocles claims that the praetorian prefect (and rival for the throne) Arrius Aper murdered Numerian, and he personally stabs and kills the prefect on the spot. The new emperor changes his name to the Latinised 'Diocletian'. Building on existing trends, Diocletian presents his rule as that of a god-like dominusor autocrat.
- Sabinus Julianus, the praetorian prefect of Emperor Carinus, exploits the instability and usurps the throne in northern Italy.
Persian Empire
- King of Kings Mirian III, of the House of Mihran, on the throne of the Kingdom of Iberia. Mirian would rule the kingdom until his death in c. 361.
Korea
By topic
Religion
- Rufinus succeeds Dometius as Bishop of Byzantium.
Births
Deaths
- November 20 – Numerian, Roman emperor (b. 254)
- Lucius Flavius Aper, Roman general and praetorian prefect
- Sun Hao, Chinese emperor of the Eastern Wu state (b. 243)
References
- ^ Cousin, Jean. "Diocletian". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
- ^ "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 21, 2019.