375

This article is about the year 375. For the number, see 375 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	340s  350s  360s  – 370s –  380s  390s  400s
Years:	372 373 374 – 375 – 376 377 378

375 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

375 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	375 CCCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1128
Assyrian calendar	5125
Bengali calendar	−218
Berber calendar	1325
Buddhist calendar	919
Burmese calendar	−263
Byzantine calendar	5883–5884
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3071 or 3011     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3072 or 3012
Coptic calendar	91–92
Discordian calendar	1541
Ethiopian calendar	367–368
Hebrew calendar	4135–4136
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	431–432
- Shaka Samvat	297–298
- Kali Yuga	3476–3477
Holocene calendar	10375
Iranian calendar	247 BP – 246 BP
Islamic calendar	255 BH – 254 BH
Julian calendar	375 CCCLXXV
Korean calendar	2708
Minguo calendar	1537 before ROC 民前1537年
Seleucid era	686/687 AG
Thai solar calendar	917–918

Solidus of Emperor Valentinian II

Year 375 (CCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Augustus and Equitius (or, less frequently, year 1128 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 375 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

• November 17 – Emperor Valentinian I concludes an enduring peace with the Alamanni in Germany, then marches into Illyrium to repel an invasion of the Quadi and the Sarmatians on the Danube frontier. While negotiating with the Quadi, Valentinian, age 54, becomes so enraged that he dies in a fit of apoplexy at Brigetio (Hungary). Extreme cruelty marked his 11-year reign, but he also founded schools and provided physicians to serve the poor of Constantinople.
• The Quadi accept an uneasy peace, Merobaudes (Magister militum), gives them land to settle on the Danube.
• Gratian, age 16, takes over the government at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier), but ministers wishing to retain the loyalty of the Illyrian army and fearing a usurper. They proclaim Valentinian's 4-year-old son Valentinian II co-emperor with his mother, Justina, as regent. Gratian reserves for himself the administration of the Gallic provinces, and hands over Italy, Illyrium, Hispania and Africa to his stepmother, who makes Mediolanum (Milan) her residence.
• Gratian, advised by his chief advisor Ambrosius, begins a systematic presecution of the pagans. He confiscates the fortunes of the temples and adds the money to the Imperial Treasury. He procribes Arianism and Donatism.
• In Africa, the dissident Berber prince Firmus is delivered to the Romans by his brother Gildon.

India

• Emperor Chandragupta II becomes ruler of the Gupta Empire (India). He is the son of Samudragupta the Great and attaines his reign by an aggressive expansionist policy.

By topic

Education

• The earliest extant books – a school textbook and an account book – with bound wooden leaves, are lost at the Dakhla Oasis in western Egypt. The desert sands preserve them for modern archaeologists.

Religion

• The first two Korean Buddhist temples are built.
• Saint Jerome retires to the desert of Chalcis (Syria).
• The Maronite Church is founded by Saint Maron in Lebanon.
• The Talmud of Babylon is written by Rav Ashi. This commentary on the Mishnah contains approximately 2.5 million words on 5.894 pages.

Births

• Orosius, Christian historian and theologian (approximate date)

Deaths

• Geunchogo, king of Baekje (Korea)
• Kipunada, king of the Kushan Empire (India)
• Rav Papa, Jewish amora and talmudist
• Samudragupta, emperor of the Gupta Empire
• November 17 – Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
• Wang Meng, prime minister of the Former Qin (b. 325)