339

Year 339 (CCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Claudius (or, less frequently, year 1092 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 339 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:	3rd century 4th century 5th century
Decades:	310s 320s 330s 340s 350s
Years:	336 337 338 339 340 341 342

339 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	339 CCCXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1092
Assyrian calendar	5089
Balinese saka calendar	260–261
Bengali calendar	−254
Berber calendar	1289
Buddhist calendar	883
Burmese calendar	−299
Byzantine calendar	5847–5848
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3035 or 2975     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3036 or 2976
Coptic calendar	55–56
Discordian calendar	1505
Ethiopian calendar	331–332
Hebrew calendar	4099–4100
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	395–396
- Shaka Samvat	260–261
- Kali Yuga	3439–3440
Holocene calendar	10339
Iranian calendar	283 BP – 282 BP
Islamic calendar	292 BH – 291 BH
Javanese calendar	220–221
Julian calendar	339 CCCXXXIX
Korean calendar	2672
Minguo calendar	1573 before ROC 民前1573年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1129
Seleucid era	650/651 AG
Thai solar calendar	881–882
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 465 or 84 or −688     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 466 or 85 or −687

Events

Roman Empire

• Emperor Constantius II hastens to his territory in the East, where a revived Persia under King Shapur II is attacking Mesopotamia. For the next 11 years, the two powers engage in a war of border skirmishing, with no real victor.

Religion

• Pope Julius I gives refuge at Rome to the Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is deposed and expelled during the First Synod of Tyre (see 335).
• Eusebius of Nicomedia is made bishop of Constantinople, while another Arian succeeds Athanasius as bishop of Alexandria, under the name Gregory.

Births

• Aurelius Ambrosius, bishop of Milan (approximate date)
• He Fani, empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 404)
• Shi Shi, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao (d. 349)

Deaths

• Abaye, Babylonian amora
• Eusebius of Caesarea, bishop and first church historian (approximate date)
• Shemon Bar Sabbae, bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
• Wang Dao, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (b. 276)

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