299

Year 299 (CCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius (or, less frequently, year 1052 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 299 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:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	270s 280s 290s 300s 310s
Years:	296 297 298 299 300 301 302

299 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	299 CCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	1052
Assyrian calendar	5049
Balinese saka calendar	220–221
Bengali calendar	−294
Berber calendar	1249
Buddhist calendar	843
Burmese calendar	−339
Byzantine calendar	5807–5808
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2995 or 2935     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2996 or 2936
Coptic calendar	15–16
Discordian calendar	1465
Ethiopian calendar	291–292
Hebrew calendar	4059–4060
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	355–356
- Shaka Samvat	220–221
- Kali Yuga	3399–3400
Holocene calendar	10299
Iranian calendar	323 BP – 322 BP
Islamic calendar	333 BH – 332 BH
Javanese calendar	179–180
Julian calendar	299 CCXCIX
Korean calendar	2632
Minguo calendar	1613 before ROC 民前1613年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1169
Seleucid era	610/611 AG
Thai solar calendar	841–842
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 425 or 44 or −728     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 426 or 45 or −727

Arch of Galerius (Thessaloniki)

Events

Roman Empire

• Peace of Nisibis: Galerius signs a treaty with the Persian king Narseh that will last for 40 years. The Persians accept Roman dominion over Armenia and northern Mesopotamia. The Tigris becomes the boundary between Rome and the Sassanid Empire.
• Galerius commissions the Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki (Greece). The structure is built to celebrate the war and victory over the Sassanid Persians.

China

• Empress Jia Nanfeng frames Crown Prince Yu for treason and has him deposed.

Births

• Jin Mingdi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 325)

Deaths

• Judah bar Ezekiel, Babylonian amora

References