AD 404

Year 404 (CDIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Aristaenetus (or, less frequently, year 1157 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 404 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:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	380s 390s 400s 410s 420s
Years:	401 402 403 404 405 406 407

404 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	404 CDIV
Ab urbe condita	1157
Assyrian calendar	5154
Balinese saka calendar	325–326
Bengali calendar	−189
Berber calendar	1354
Buddhist calendar	948
Burmese calendar	−234
Byzantine calendar	5912–5913
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3100 or 3040     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3101 or 3041
Coptic calendar	120–121
Discordian calendar	1570
Ethiopian calendar	396–397
Hebrew calendar	4164–4165
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	460–461
- Shaka Samvat	325–326
- Kali Yuga	3504–3505
Holocene calendar	10404
Iranian calendar	218 BP – 217 BP
Islamic calendar	225 BH – 224 BH
Javanese calendar	287–288
Julian calendar	404 CDIV
Korean calendar	2737
Minguo calendar	1508 before ROC 民前1508年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1064
Seleucid era	715/716 AG
Thai solar calendar	946–947
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 530 or 149 or −623     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 531 or 150 or −622

John Chrysostom confronting Empress Eudoxia, by Jean-Paul Laurens

Events

Roman Empire

• January 1 – Last known gladiator fight in Rome: This date is usually given as the date of the martyrdom of Saint Telemachus, a Christian monk who was stoned by the crowd for trying to stop a gladiators' fight in a Roman amphitheatre.
• October 6 – Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy, which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection short after.
• Fravitta, a Goth serving the Eastern Roman Empire as a high-ranking general, is executed on the behest of a powerful official named Ioannes. Fravitta is executed because he accused Ioannes of pitting Emperor Arcadius and Emperor Honorius (of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, respectively) against each other. The execution of Fravitta results in the Eastern Roman Empire losing one of their most loyal and competent generals.[1] (404 or 405)

Asia

• Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (Korea) attacks Liaodong and takes the entire Liaodong Peninsula.
• The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year. In his book he argues that although the Buddhist clergy should remain independent and undisturbed by politics, the Buddhist laymen nonetheless make good subjects under monarchs, due to their fear of retribution of karma and desire to be reborn in paradise.

Religion

• Eudoxia exiles John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, for criticizing her sumptuous lifestyle. He is banished to the Caucasus in Armenia. Pope Innocent I at Rome orders a synod to reinstate the bishop, but his envoys are imprisoned. Atticus becomes the new bishop of Constantinople.

Deaths

• January 1 – Telemachus, Christian monk and martyr
• February – Flavian I, Patriarch of Antioch
• June 19 – Huan Xuan, warlord and emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 369)
• October 6 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress and wife of Arcadius
• Claudian, Roman poet (approximate date)
• He Fani, empress of the Jin dynasty (b. 339)
• Paula, Desert Mother and saint (b. 347)

References

1. Elton, Hugh (1996). "Fravitta and Barbarian Career Opportunities in Constantinople". Medieval Prosopography. 17 (1): 95–106. ISSN 0198-9405. JSTOR 44946209.