276

276 in other calendars

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	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 402 or 21 or −751     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 403 or 22 or −750

Emperor Probus

Year 276 (CCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• 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

• 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

Religion

• Mani, a sage from Persia, dies at Gundeshapur.

Births

• 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

• Bahram I, king of Persia
• Mani, prophet and founder of Manichaeism
• Marcus Annius Florianus, Roman Emperor
• Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman Emperor