| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 279 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 279 CCLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1032 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5029 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 200–201 |
| Bengali calendar | −314 |
| Berber calendar | 1229 |
| Buddhist calendar | 823 |
| Burmese calendar | −359 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5787–5788 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2976 or 2769 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2977 or 2770 |
| Coptic calendar | −5 – −4 |
| Discordian calendar | 1445 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 271–272 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4039–4040 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 335–336 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 200–201 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3379–3380 |
| Holocene calendar | 10279 |
| Iranian calendar | 343 BP – 342 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 354 BH – 353 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 158–159 |
| Julian calendar | 279 CCLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 2612 |
| Minguo calendar | 1633 before ROC 民前1633年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1189 |
| Seleucid era | 590/591 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 821–822 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 405 or 24 or −748 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 406 or 25 or −747 |
Year 279 (CCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Probus and Paternus (or, less frequently, year 1032 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 279 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[edit]
By place[edit]
Roman Empire[edit]
- Emperor Probus defeats the Burgundians and Vandals, in Raetia and Pannonia (modern Switzerland and Hungary).
Asia[edit]
- Winter – Conquest of Wu by Jin: The Jin Dynasty conquers Eastern Wu, the last of the three contending powers in China during the Three Kingdoms Period.
Births[edit]
- Sima Ying, Chinese prince of the Jin Dynasty (d. 306)
Deaths[edit]
- Johanan bar Nappaha, Jewish compiler of the Talmud
- Tiberius Julius Teiranes, Roman prince and client king
- Tufa Shujineng, Chinese chieftain of Jin Dynasty