359

This article is about the year 359. For the number, see 359 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	320s  330s  340s  – 350s –  360s  370s  380s
Years:	356 357 358 – 359 – 360 361 362

359 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

359 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	359 CCCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1112
Assyrian calendar	5109
Bengali calendar	−234
Berber calendar	1309
Buddhist calendar	903
Burmese calendar	−279
Byzantine calendar	5867–5868
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3055 or 2995     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3056 or 2996
Coptic calendar	75–76
Discordian calendar	1525
Ethiopian calendar	351–352
Hebrew calendar	4119–4120
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	415–416
- Shaka Samvat	281–282
- Kali Yuga	3460–3461
Holocene calendar	10359
Iranian calendar	263 BP – 262 BP
Islamic calendar	271 BH – 270 BH
Julian calendar	359 CCCLIX
Korean calendar	2692
Minguo calendar	1553 before ROC 民前1553年
Seleucid era	670/671 AG
Thai solar calendar	901–902

The walls of Amida (Turkey)

Year 359 (CCCLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eusebius and Hypatius (or, less frequently, year 1112 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 359 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

• King Shapur II the Great of the Persian Empire invades southern Armenia. The Romans implemented a scorched earth policy and placed strong guards at the Euphrates crossings.
• Siege of Amida: Shapur II besieged the Roman fortress of Amida (modern Diyarbakir). After seventy-three days the city is conquered and the population is massacred by the Persians. Ammianus Marcellinus is a fortunate survivor and flees to Singara (Iraq).
• The first known Prefect of the city of Constantinople, Honoratus, takes office.
• Famine in Upper Rhineland. A fleet of 800 river boats built for the Rhine, crossed to the British east coast and carried back enough corn to raise the famine.
• Winter – Shapur II halts his campaign due to heavy casualties during the Persian invasion.

By topic

Art

• Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, in the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican, is made (approximate date).

Religion

• July – Emperor Constantius II convenes the Council of Rimini to resolve the crisis over Arianism in the Church. Some 400 bishops of the Western Roman Empire attend, while the Eastern bishops held simultaneously a meeting at Seleucia. Given Saint Jerome's comment that, "The whole world groaned in astonishment to find itself Arian", it appears to have failed. Pope Liberius rejected the new creed at Rimini.

Births

• Flavius Stilicho, Roman general (d. 408)
• Godigisel, king of the Vandals (d. 406)
• Gratian, Roman emperor (d. 383)
• Murong Chong, emperor of Western Yan (d. 386)

Deaths

• Barbatio, Roman general
• Hosius of Corduba, bishop of Córdoba (Spain)
• Junius Bassus, Roman politician
• Zhang Guan, general and regent of Former Liang