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Saint John Chrysostom (Constantinople)Year 398 (CCCXCVIII) 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 Augustus and Eutychianus (or, less frequently, year 1151 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 398 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
Gildonic Revolt: Gildo, Moorish prince, revolts against Roman rule in Mauretania, taking much of North Africa and cutting off the corn supply to Rome. Flavius Stilicho returns to Italy to raise troops against the rebels. After a short campaign in the desert, he defeats Gildo who flees and commits suicide by hanging.Eutropius, Roman general (magister militum), celebrates his victory over the Huns ("the wolves of the North") in a parade through Constantinople (see 395).An imperial edict obliges Roman landowners with plantations to yield 1/3 of their fields to the "barbarians" who have been settled in the Roman Empire.Emperor Honorius marries, in quick succession, Stilicho's daughter Maria. By topic
Religion
John Chrysostom becomes archbishop of Constantinople. He receives a delegation of clergymen who want to close the pagan temples at Gaza (Palestine) where worshipers are openly defying the law. John works through the eunuch Eutropius, who has great power over emperor Arcadius, and within a week an imperial Constitution is issued closing the temples, but the official appointed to execute this order is bribed.
Births
Fan Ye, Chinese historian (d. 445)
Deaths
Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologianGildo, Moorish prince and comes Africae (governor)Lan Han, official of the Xianbei state Later YanMurong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (b. 355)Murong Lin, Chinese prince of the Xianbei state Later YanMurong Nong, Chinese prince of the Xianbei state Later YanNectarius, archbishop of Constantinople
