Editing 398

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Year '''398''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CCCXCVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of [[Honorius|Augustus]] and [[Eutychianus (consul 398)|Eutychianus]]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 1151 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 398 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Revolt of Alaric I]]: After Stilicho returned to Italy, the Eastern Roman Empire concludes a peace treaty with Alaric. The Visigoths are given a settlement area in Illyricum and their king is appointed ''magister militum per Illyricum''.
* [[Gildonic War|Gildonic Revolt]]: [[Gildo]], a Berber serving as a high-ranking official (''comes'') in [[Mauretania]], rebels against the [[Western Roman Empire]]. The Gildonic Revolt is instigated by a powerful official in the Eastern Roman Empire named [[Eutropius (consul 399)|Eutropius]], who wishes to undermine his enemies in the Western Roman Empire by cutting off the grain supply to Rome.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Charles|first=Michael|date=2005|title=Transporting the Troops in Late Antiquity: Naves Onerariae, Claudian and the Gildonic War|journal=The Classical Journal|volume=100|issue=3|pages=275–299|jstor=4133022|issn=0009-8353}}</ref> After Gildo takes much of [[Africa (Roman province)|North Africa]] and cuts off the grain supply to [[Rome]], [[Stilicho|Flavius Stilicho]] returns to [[Italy]] to raise troops against the rebels. After a short campaign in the [[desert]], he defeats Gildo. Gildo flees and commits [[suicide]] by hanging himself.
* [[Eutropius (consul 399)|Eutropius]], Roman general (''[[magister militum]]''), celebrates his victory over the [[Huns]] ("the wolves of the North") in a [[Roman triumph|parade]] through [[Constantinople]] (see [[395]]). 
* An imperial [[edict]] obliges Roman landowners with [[plantation]]s to yield 1/3 of their fields to the "barbarians" who have been settled in the [[Roman Empire]].
* Emperor [[Honorius (emperor)|Honorius]] marries Stilicho's daughter [[Maria (empress)|Maria]].
* Possible date for the Second Pictish War.

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[John Chrysostom]], [[Archbishop of Constantinople]], receives a delegation of [[clergy]] who want to close the [[paganism|pagan]] temples at [[Gaza City|Gaza]] ([[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]) where worshippers are openly defying the law. John works through the eunuch [[Eutropius (consul 399)|Eutropius]], who has great power over emperor [[Arcadius]], and within a week an imperial [[Constitution]] is issued closing the [[Roman temple]]s, but the official appointed to execute this order is [[Bribery|bribe]]d.
* [[Augustine of Hippo]] completes his ''[[Confessions (St. Augustine)|Confessions]]'', an autobiography that recounts his intellectual and spiritual development.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[Fan Ye (historian)|Fan Ye]], Chinese [[historian]] (d. [[445]])

== Deaths ==
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Murong Bao]], emperor of the [[Xianbei]] state [[Later Yan]] (b. [[355]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Lan Han]], official of the Xianbei state Lan Yan
* [[Didymus the Blind]], Alexandrian [[Theology|theologian]]
* [[Gildo]], [[Moors|Moorish]] prince and ''[[comes]]'' ''[[Africa (Roman province)|Africae]]'' (governor)
* [[Murong Lin]], Chinese prince of the Xianbei state Later Yan
* [[Murong Nong]], Chinese prince of the Xianbei state Later Yan
* [[Archbishop Nectarius of Constantinople|Nectarius]], [[archbishop]] of [[Constantinople]]

== References ==
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