404

This article is about the year AD 404. For the number, see 404 (number). For the error code, see HTTP 404. For other uses, see 404 (disambiguation).

Centuries:	4th century · 5th century · 6th century
Decades:	370s 380s 390s 400s 410s 420s 430s
Years:	401 402 403 404 405 406 407

404 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**404 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	404 CDIV
Ab urbe condita	1157
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1440 – -1439
Bengali calendar	-189
Berber calendar	1354
Buddhist calendar	948
Burmese calendar	-234
Byzantine calendar	5912 – 5913
Chinese calendar	癸卯年十二月初三日 (3040/3100-12-3) — to — 甲辰年十一月十四日 (3041/3101-11-14)
Coptic calendar	120 – 121
Ethiopian calendar	396 – 397
Hebrew calendar	4164 – 4165
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	460 – 461
- Shaka Samvat	326 – 327
- Kali Yuga	3505 – 3506
Holocene calendar	10404
Iranian calendar	218 BP – 217 BP
Islamic calendar	225 BH – 224 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2737
Thai solar calendar	947

Events

By place

Western Roman Empire

January 1—The last gladiatoral competition is held in Rome.
The dome in Ravenna is built by the entire population of the city.

Asia

Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo attacks Liaodong and takes the entire Liaodong Peninsula.
The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year. In his book he argues that although the Buddhist clergy should remain independent and undisturbed by politics, the Buddhist laymen nonetheless make good subjects under monarchs, due to their fear of retribution of karma and desire to be reborn in paradise.

By topic

Religion

John Chrysostom is deposed again, and Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople becomes Archbishop of Constantinople.
Saint Telemachus is martyred.

Births

Deaths

February—Flavian I of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch
October 6—Aelia Eudoxia, wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius
Claudian, court poet to Emperor Honorius and Stilicho
Empress He Fani, empress of the Jin Dynasty, wife of Emperor Mu
Saint Paula
Saint Telemachus, Catholic monk
Huan Xuan, Jin Dynasty (265–420) warlord who briefly took over the imperial throne from Emperor An of Jin