276
year
Year 276 (CCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
Decades: | 240s 250s 260s – 270s – 280s 290s 300s |
Years: | 273 274 275 – 276 – 277 278 279 |
Gregorian calendar | 276 CCLXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1029 |
Assyrian calendar | 5026 |
Balinese saka calendar | 197–198 |
Bengali calendar | −317 |
Berber calendar | 1226 |
Buddhist calendar | 820 |
Burmese calendar | −362 |
Byzantine calendar | 5784–5785 |
Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2972 or 2912 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2973 or 2913 |
Coptic calendar | −8 – −7 |
Discordian calendar | 1442 |
Ethiopian calendar | 268–269 |
Hebrew calendar | 4036–4037 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 332–333 |
- Shaka Samvat | 197–198 |
- Kali Yuga | 3376–3377 |
Holocene calendar | 10276 |
Iranian calendar | 346 BP – 345 BP |
Islamic calendar | 357 BH – 356 BH |
Javanese calendar | 155–156 |
Julian calendar | 276 CCLXXVI |
Korean calendar | 2609 |
Minguo calendar | 1636 before ROC 民前1636年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1192 |
Seleucid era | 587/588 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 818–819 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 402 or 21 or −751 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 403 or 22 or −750 |
Events
changeBy place
changeRoman Empire
change- Emperor Tacitus doubled the silver content of the Roman currency.
- Marcus Annius Florianus defeats the Goths and Alans who have invaded Asia Minor. Tacitus dies of illness or is murdered at Tyana in Cappadocia.
- Florianus becomes Roman Emperor. He stops his battles against the Heruli and marches from the Bosporus. He has support from the Roman legions in Britain, Gaul, Spain and Italy. No one is the winner in a battle with Marcus Aurelius Probus in Cilicia.
- Florianus keeps power for some weeks. Then he is assassinated by his own troops near Tarsus (Turkey). Probus, age 44, is the new Emperor of Rome.
- Probus picks Marcus Aurelius Carus to Prefect of the Praetorian Guard.
Asia
change- King Bahram I of Persia dies after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Bahram II.
- Reign of Mahasena in Ceylon. He tries to introduce Mahayana Buddhism to the country.
By topic
changeReligion
change- Mani, a sage from Persia, dies at Gundeshapur.
Births
change- Gregory the Elder, bishop of Nazianzus (approximate date)
- Guo Pu, Chinese writer (d. 324)
- Jin Yuandi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 323)
- Wang Dao, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (d. 339)
Deaths
change- Bahram I, king of Persia
- Mani, prophet and founder of Manichaeism
- Marcus Annius Florianus, Roman Emperor
- Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman Emperor