344

This article is about the year 344. For the number, see 344 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	310s  320s  330s  – 340s –  350s  360s  370s
Years:	341 342 343 – 344 – 345 346 347

344 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

344 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	344 CCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	1097
Assyrian calendar	5094
Bengali calendar	−249
Berber calendar	1294
Buddhist calendar	888
Burmese calendar	−294
Byzantine calendar	5852–5853
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3040 or 2980     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3041 or 2981
Coptic calendar	60–61
Discordian calendar	1510
Ethiopian calendar	336–337
Hebrew calendar	4104–4105
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	400–401
- Shaka Samvat	266–267
- Kali Yuga	3445–3446
Holocene calendar	10344
Iranian calendar	278 BP – 277 BP
Islamic calendar	287 BH – 286 BH
Julian calendar	344 CCCXLIV
Korean calendar	2677
Minguo calendar	1568 before ROC 民前1568年
Seleucid era	655/656 AG
Thai solar calendar	886–887

Year 344 (CCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Leontius and Bonosus (or, less frequently, year 1097 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 344 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

• The Eastern Roman Emperor Constantius II campaigns in eastern Mesopotamia against the Sassanid Persians
• Battle of Singara: The Roman army under Constantius wins a close victory at the strongly fortified city of Singara (Mesopotamia). His enemy, King Shapur II is forced to lift the siege and withdraw the Persian army.
• Shapur II besiege for the second time the Roman fortress of Nisibis in eastern Mesopotamia, but is repulsed by forces under the general Lucilianus.

China

• Jin Mudi, age 1, succeeds his father Jin Kangdi as emperor of China. His mother Empress Dowager Chu, becomes the ruling authority at court and served as regent.

By topic

Art

• The making of a detail of Admonitions of the Imperial Instructress to Court Ladies (attributed to Gu Kaizhi and being from the Six Dynasties period) begins (approximate year) and is completed in 406. It is now kept at the British Museum, London.

Religion

• Bishop Eustorgius I brings relics of the Three Magi from Constantinople to Milan, according to a 12th century legend.

Births

• Gu Kaizhi, Chinese painter (approximate date)
• Kumārajīva, Buddhist monk and translator (d. 413)
• Mary of Egypt, patron saint (approximate date)
• Wang Xianzhi, Chinese calligrapher (d. 386)
• Zhang Yaoling, ruler of Former Liang (d. 355)

Deaths

• Biryu of Baekje, king of Baekje (Three Kingdoms of Korea)
• Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai, bishop and martyr
• November 17 – Jin Kangdi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 322)