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| Centuries: | 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century |
| Decades: | 250s 260s 270s - 280s - 290s 300s 310s |
| Years: | 281 282 283 - 284 - 285 286 287 |
| 284 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 284 CCLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1037 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1560 – -1559 |
| Berber calendar | 1234 |
| Buddhist calendar | 828 |
| Burmese calendar | -354 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5792 – 5793 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年十一月廿六日 (2920/2980-11-26) — to —
甲辰年十二月初七日(2921/2981-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 0 – 1 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 276 – 277 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4044 – 4045 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 339 – 340 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 206 – 207 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3385 – 3386 |
| Holocene calendar | 10284 |
| Iranian calendar | 338 BP – 337 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 348 BH – 347 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2617 |
| Thai solar calendar | 827 |
Events
By Place
Roman Empire
- November 20 — Diocletian becomes Emperor. The Tetrarchy starts.
- The Bagaudae in Gaul revolt against the Romans.
By Topic
Religion
- Patriarch Rufinus I succeeds Patriarch Dometius as Patriarch of Constantinople.
- Year 1 of the Coptic calendar (or 285).
Births
- Ge Hong, Chinese Daoist philosopher, poet, alchemist, government official, and biographer (d. 364)
- Emperor Huai of Jin, emperor of the Jin Dynasty
Deaths
- November — Numerian, Roman emperor
- Diophantus, Greek mathematician (approximate date)
- Sun Hao, final emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu
- Xin Xianying
- Zhang Jiao
