390

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century 4th century 5th century
Decades:	370s 380s 390s 400s 410s
Years:	387 388 389 390 391 392 393

390 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	390 CCCXC
Ab urbe condita	1143
Assyrian calendar	5140
Balinese saka calendar	311–312
Bengali calendar	−203
Berber calendar	1340
Buddhist calendar	934
Burmese calendar	−248
Byzantine calendar	5898–5899
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3087 or 2880     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3088 or 2881
Coptic calendar	106–107
Discordian calendar	1556
Ethiopian calendar	382–383
Hebrew calendar	4150–4151
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	446–447
- Shaka Samvat	311–312
- Kali Yuga	3490–3491
Holocene calendar	10390
Iranian calendar	232 BP – 231 BP
Islamic calendar	239 BH – 238 BH
Javanese calendar	273–274
Julian calendar	390 CCCXC
Korean calendar	2723
Minguo calendar	1522 before ROC 民前1522年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1078
Seleucid era	701/702 AG
Thai solar calendar	932–933
Tibetan calendar	阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 516 or 135 or −637     — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 517 or 136 or −636

Emperor Theodosius I and Ambrose, by Anthony van Dyck

Year 390 (CCCXC) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Neoterius (or, less frequently, year 1143 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 390 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

By place

Roman Empire

• April – Massacre of Thessalonica: Resentment among the citizens of Thessalonica (Macedonia) breaks out into violence after the arrest of a popular charioteer. Butheric, military commander of Illyricum, is murdered. Emperor Theodosius I orders vengeance, despite the pleas for mercy by Ambrose, bishop of Milan; more than 7,000 inhabitants are massacred by the Roman army.
• Ambrose retires to Milan (residence of Theodosius I) and refuses to celebrate a mass in the emperor's presence, until he repents for ordering the massacre in Thessalonica. Theodosius, filled with remorse, kneels in humility and strips off his royal purple, before the altar of the cathedral in Milan, humbling himself before the church.
• The Visigoths and Huns, led by Alaric, invade Thrace. Stilicho, high-ranking general (magister militum) of Vandal origin, raises an army and begins a campaign against the Goths.
• Theodosius I brings an obelisk from Egypt to the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

India

• Rudrasena II of Vakataka succeeds his father, Prthivisena I. In the same year he marries Prabhavatigupta, daughter of the Gupta king Chandragupta II.

By topic

Art

• C. 390–401 – Priestess of Bacchus: Late Antiquity ivory diptych; documents the relationship of the senators Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. It commemorates the marriage of the two families. The right panel is inscribed "Symmachorum", with an elaborately dressed priestess who makes an offer on an altar. It is now kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Religion

• Jerome, having finished the Latin translation of the New Testament, begins translating the Old Testament.
• The Kama Sutra is revised by Vatsyayana.

Births

• Bleda, king of the Huns (approximate date)
• Gao Yun, duke of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (d. 487)
• Prosper of Aquitaine, disciple and Christian writer (approximate date)
• Romanus of Condat, hermit and saint (approximate date)
• Simeon Stylites, Christian Stylite (approximate date)
• Xie Hui, general of the Liu Song dynasty (d. 426)

Deaths

• January 25 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
• Apollinaris of Laodicea, bishop and theologian
• Aurelius Victor, Roman historian and politician
• Chen Guinü, queen consort of Jin Xiaowudi
• Diodorus of Tarsus, bishop and monastic reformer