337

Year 337 (CCCXXXVII) was a common 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 Felicianus and Titianus (or, less frequently, year 1090 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 337 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
337 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar337
CCCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita1090
Assyrian calendar5087
Balinese saka calendar258–259
Bengali calendar−256
Berber calendar1287
Buddhist calendar881
Burmese calendar−301
Byzantine calendar5845–5846
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
3033 or 2973
     to 
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
3034 or 2974
Coptic calendar53–54
Discordian calendar1503
Ethiopian calendar329–330
Hebrew calendar4097–4098
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat393–394
 - Shaka Samvat258–259
 - Kali Yuga3437–3438
Holocene calendar10337
Iranian calendar285 BP – 284 BP
Islamic calendar294 BH – 293 BH
Javanese calendar218–219
Julian calendar337
CCCXXXVII
Korean calendar2670
Minguo calendar1575 before ROC
民前1575年
Nanakshahi calendar−1131
Seleucid era648/649 AG
Thai solar calendar879–880
Tibetan calendar阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
463 or 82 or −690
     to 
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
464 or 83 or −689
Roman Empire (337) is divided between the territories of (west to east): Constantine II, Constans I, Dalmatius and Constantius II

Events

Roman Empire

Persia

  • King Shapur II of Persia begins a war against the Roman Empire. He sends his troops across the Tigris to recover Armenia and Mesopotamia.
  • Shapur II besieges the Roman fortress of Nisibis (Syria), but is repulsed by forces under Lucilianus.

China

  • Murong Huang claims the title of Prince of Yan, effectively beginning the kingdom of Former Yan.

Religion

Births

  • Faxian, Chinese Buddhist monk, traveler (approximate date)
  • Fú Jiān, emperor of the Chinese Di state Former Qin (d. 385)
  • Lü Guang, founding emperor of the Di state Later Liang (d. 400)
  • Zenobius of Florence, Italian bishop and wonderworker (d. 417)

Deaths

Saint Eustathius of Antioch
Emperor and Saint Constantine the Great
Hannibalianus

References

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