283

This article is about the year 283. For the number, see 283 (number).

Year 283 (CCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Carus and Carinus (or, less frequently, year 1036 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 283 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	260s 270s 280s 290s 300s
Years:	280 281 282 283 284 285 286

283 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	283 CCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1036
Assyrian calendar	5033
Balinese saka calendar	204–205
Bengali calendar	−310
Berber calendar	1233
Buddhist calendar	827
Burmese calendar	−355
Byzantine calendar	5791–5792
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2980 or 2773     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2981 or 2774
Coptic calendar	−1 – 0
Discordian calendar	1449
Ethiopian calendar	275–276
Hebrew calendar	4043–4044
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	339–340
- Shaka Samvat	204–205
- Kali Yuga	3383–3384
Holocene calendar	10283
Iranian calendar	339 BP – 338 BP
Islamic calendar	349 BH – 348 BH
Javanese calendar	162–163
Julian calendar	283 CCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	2616
Minguo calendar	1629 before ROC 民前1629年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1185
Seleucid era	594/595 AG
Thai solar calendar	825–826
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 409 or 28 or −744     — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 410 or 29 or −743

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Spring: Emperor Carus makes his son Carinus the Augustus in the west.^{[citation needed]}
• Exploiting the Persian civil war, Carus leaves Carinus in charge of much of the Roman Empire and, accompanied by his younger son Numerian, invades the Sassanid Empire. They sack Seleucia and Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian kingdom, and they press on beyond the Tigris. For his victories, Carus receives the title of Persicus Maximus.^{[citation needed]}
• The officer Diocles, the future Emperor Diocletian, distinguishes himself in the war against the Persians.^{[citation needed]}
• Carinus campaigns with success in Britain and on the Rhine frontier.^{[citation needed]}
• Summer: Carus dies in mysterious circumstances during the war against the Persians. Various sources claim he died of illness, was struck by lightning or was killed in combat.^{[citation needed]}
• Carinus and Numerian succeed their father Carus. Numerian, who had accompanied his father into the Persian Empire, leads the army back to Roman territory.^{[citation needed]}
• The corrector Aurelius Julianus usurps power in Pannonia but is defeated by Carinus.^{[citation needed]}

Persian Empire

• The King of Kings Bahram II fights a civil war against his brother Hormizd, the king of Sakastan.^[1]

By topic

Religion

• December 17 – Pope Caius succeeds Eutychian as the 28th pope of Rome.^[2]

Births

• Eusebius of Vercelli, Christian bishop and saint (d. 371)
• Ge Hong, Chinese scholar and philosopher (d. 343)

Deaths

• December 7 – Etychian, bishop of Rome
• Marcus Aurelius Carus, Roman emperor (b. 224)
• Shan Tao, Chinese scholar and politician (b. 205)
• Sima You (or Dayou), Chinese prince (b. 248)
• Sima Zhou (or Zijiang), Chinese prince (b. 227)

References

1. Yarshater, Ehsan; Fisher, William Bayne, eds. (1968). "Iran under the Sasanians". The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-52106-935-9.
2. Thomas, P. C. (1992), A Compact History of the Popes, Mumbai: Bombay Society of St Paul, p. 19, ISBN 978-8-17109-142-3