388
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 3rd century – 4th century – 5th century |
| Decades: | 350s 360s 370s – 380s – 390s 400s 410s |
| Years: | 385 386 387 – 388 – 389 390 391 |
| 388 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 388 CCCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1141 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5138 |
| Bengali calendar | −205 |
| Berber calendar | 1338 |
| Buddhist calendar | 932 |
| Burmese calendar | −250 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5896–5897 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3084 or 3024 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3085 or 3025 |
| Coptic calendar | 104–105 |
| Discordian calendar | 1554 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 380–381 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4148–4149 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 444–445 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 310–311 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3489–3490 |
| Holocene calendar | 10388 |
| Iranian calendar | 234 BP – 233 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 241 BH – 240 BH |
| Julian calendar | 388 CCCLXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 2721 |
| Minguo calendar | 1524 before ROC 民前1524年 |
| Seleucid era | 699/700 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 930–931 |
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Year 388 (CCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1141 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 388 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
- Battle of the Save: Emperor Theodosius I defeats Magnus Maximus near Emona (modern Slovenia). Theodosius is in command of an army including Goths, Huns and Alans. Valentinian II, now 17, is restored as Roman Emperor.
- August 28 – Magnus Maximus surrenders at Aquileia and is executed. Theodosius I devotes himself to gluttony and voluptuous living. Maximus' son Flavius Victor is executed at Trier by Valentinian's magister militum Arbogast.
Persia
- King Shapur III dies after a reign in which he has partitioned Armenia with the Roman Empire. He is succeeded by his son Bahram IV, who becomes the twelfth Sassanid king of Persia.
India
- Emperor Chandragupta II, ruler of the Gupta Empire, begins a war against the Shaka Dynasty in West India.
By topic
Religion
- Paternus becomes bishop of the Episcopal see of Braga (Portugal).
- Isaac, age 50, is named Catholicos (spiritual head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
- Jerome moves to Palestine, where he spend the rest of his life as a hermit near Bethlehem.
- A group of Christians storms the synagogue of the city Callinicum (Syria), at the Euphrates.
Births
Deaths
- Flavius Victor, son of Magnus Maximus and co-emperor (Augustus)
- August 28 – Magnus Maximus, Western Roman Emperor
- Qifu Guoren, ruler of the Xianbei state Western Qin
- Shapur III, king of the Sassanid Empire (Persia)
- Themistius, statesman, rhetorician and philosopher (b. 317)
- Xie Xuan, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 343)