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This article is about the year 355.     For other uses, see [355 (disambiguation)](/source/355_(disambiguation)).

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Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 3rd century 4th century 5th century Decades 330s 340s 350s 360s 370s Years 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 v t e

355 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths v t e

355 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 355 CCCLV Ab urbe condita 1108 Assyrian calendar 5105 Balinese saka calendar 276–277 Bengali calendar −239 – −238 Berber calendar 1305 Buddhist calendar 899 Burmese calendar −283 Byzantine calendar 5863–5864 Chinese calendar 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3052 or 2845 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3053 or 2846 Coptic calendar 71–72 Discordian calendar 1521 Ethiopian calendar 347–348 Hebrew calendar 4115–4116 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 411–412 - Shaka Samvat 276–277 - Kali Yuga 3455–3456 Holocene calendar 10355 Iranian calendar 267 BP – 266 BP Islamic calendar 275 BH – 274 BH Javanese calendar 237–238 Julian calendar 355 CCCLV Korean calendar 2688 Minguo calendar 1557 before ROC 民前1557年 Nanakshahi calendar −1113 Seleucid era 666/667 AG Thai solar calendar 897–898 Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 481 or 100 or −672 — to — ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 482 or 101 or −671

The [Huns](/source/Huns) in battle with the [Alans](/source/Alans) by [Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger](/source/Peter_Johann_Nepomuk_Geiger) (1873)

Year **355** (**[CCCLV](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Sunday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Sunday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). At the time, it was known as the **Year of the Consulship of Arbitio and Maesius** (or, less frequently, **year 1108 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 355 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Roman Empire

- [January 1](/source/January_1) – [Arbitio](/source/Arbitio) and [Lollianus Mavortius](/source/Lollianus_Mavortius) begin their term as [Roman consuls](/source/Roman_consul).[1][2]

- [August 11](/source/August_11) – [Claudius Silvanus](/source/Claudius_Silvanus), accused of treason, proclaims himself [Roman Emperor](/source/Roman_Emperor).[3] After 28 days, [Ursicinus](/source/Ursicinus_(magister_equitum)) arrives from [Rome](/source/Rome) and has Silvanus murdered.

- [November 6](/source/November_6) – In [Mediolanum](/source/Mediolanum) ([Italy](/source/Italy)), Emperor [Constantius II](/source/Constantius_II) raises his cousin [Julian the Apostate](/source/Julian_the_Apostate) to the rank of *[Caesar](/source/Caesar_(title))*.[4] He takes command of the western provinces and marries Constantius' sister, [Helena](/source/Helena_(wife_of_Julian)).

#### Europe

- The [Lentienses](/source/Lentienses), a [Germanic tribe](/source/Germanic_peoples), are fined by the Roman commander Arbetio under Constantius II for several incursions against the [Roman Empire](/source/Roman_Empire).

- The [Franks](/source/Franks) besiege [Colonia Agrippinensium](/source/Colonia_Claudia_Ara_Agrippinensium) for ten months.

#### Asia

- The [Huns](/source/Huns) of [Central Asia](/source/Central_Asia) begin their great drive westwards with an advance into [Scythia](/source/Scythia) (modern Ukraine). They overcome and absorb the [Alans](/source/Alans), a nomadic and warlike [horse breeding](/source/Horse_breeding) people from the [steppes](/source/Steppe) northeast of the [Black Sea](/source/Black_Sea). [*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

### By topic

#### Religion

- [Pope Liberius](/source/Pope_Liberius) refuses to sign a condemnation of [Athanasius](/source/Athanasius_of_Alexandria), [Patriarch of Alexandria](/source/Patriarch_of_Alexandria), imposed at [Milan](/source/Milan) by Constantius II. Liberius is exiled to [Beroea](/source/Veria) ([Greece](/source/Greece)) and replaced by [Felix II](/source/Antipope_Felix_II). He becomes an [antipope](/source/Antipope) and [bishop](/source/Bishop) of Rome.

## Births

- [Fan Tai](/source/Fan_Tai), Chinese general of the [Jin Dynasty](/source/Jin_Dynasty_(265-420)) (d. [428](/source/428))

- [Murong Bao](/source/Murong_Bao), Chinese emperor of [Later Yan](/source/Later_Yan) (d. [398](/source/398))

## Deaths

- [September 7](/source/September_7) – [Claudius Silvanus](/source/Silvanus_(magister_peditum)), Roman [usurper](/source/Usurper)

- [Aedesius](/source/Aedesius), Roman [Neoplatonist](/source/Neoplatonism) philosopher and mystic[5]

- [Fu Jian](/source/Fu_Jian_(317%E2%80%93355)), Chinese emperor of the [Former Qin](/source/Former_Qin) (b. [317](/source/317))[6]

- [Liang](/source/Empress_Liang_(Former_Qin)), Chinese empress of the Former Qin Dynasty

- [Zhang Yaoling](/source/Zhang_Yaoling), Chinese ruler of [Former Liang](/source/Former_Liang) (b. [344](/source/344))

- [Zhang Zuo](/source/Zhang_Zuo) (or **Taibo**), Chinese ruler of Former Liang

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** E.J. Bickerman, *Chronology of the Ancient World* (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 64

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Timothy David Barnes (1981). [*Constantine and Eusebius*](https://books.google.com/books?id=LGDjJK-JeSwC&pg=PA399). Harvard University Press. p. 399. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-674-16531-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-16531-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Ammianus Marcellinus, *History*, 15.2.3.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [G.W. Bowersock](/source/G.W._Bowersock), *Julian the Apostate* (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1978), pp. 15, 34 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-674-48882-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-48882-2)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Henry Fynes Clinton (1845). [*Fasti Romani: Tables*](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228223). University Press. pp. [363](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228223/page/n381).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Holmgren1982_6-0)** Jennifer Holmgren (1982). [*Annals of Tai: Early T'O-Pa History According to the First Chapter of the Wei-Shu*](https://books.google.com/books?id=AsFwAAAAMAAJ). Faculty of Asian Studies. p. 91. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-909879-16-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-909879-16-7).

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