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Year 334 (CCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Optatus and Caesonius (or, less frequently, year 1087 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 334 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 ==
- Flavius Dalmatius puts down a revolt in Cyprus, led by Calocaerus. Calocaerus is brought to Tarsus (Cilicia), and executed.{{cite book|last=Pohlsander|first=Hans A.|title=The Emperor Constantine|year=2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-31938-6|page=78|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DCEKDw7I7cC&dq=Flavius+Dalmatius+Calocaerus+revolt+334&pg=PA78|edition=2nd}}
- The Goths protect the Danube frontier against an invasion by the Vandals.{{cite book|last=Kraitser|first=Charles V.|title=The Poles in the United States of America|year=1837|publisher=Kiderlen and Stollmeyer|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwUFAAAAYAAJ&dq=Goths+Danube+Vandal+invasion+334&pg=PA17}}{{cite book|last=Townsend|first=George Henry|title=The Manual of Dates|year=1862|publisher=Routledge, Warne & Routledge|page=757|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKQZAAAAYAAJ&dq=Goths+Danube+Vandal+invasion+334&pg=PA757|edition=2nd}}
- Emperor Constantine the Great reauthorises gladiatorial combat.
Births
- Huiyuan, Chinese Buddhist teacher and founder of Donglin Temple (d. 416){{cite book|last=Zürcher|first=Erik|title=The Buddhist conquest of China|year=1959|publisher=Brill Archive|page=16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLE3AAAAIAAJ&dq=Huiyuan+334–416&pg=PA16|volume=1}}
- Sabbas the Goth, Christian reader and saint (d. 372){{cite book|last=Hodgkin|first=Thomas|title=Italy and Her Invaders|year=1892|volume=1|issue=1|page=178|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aY08AAAAIAAJ&q=334|edition=2nd|publisher=Clarendon Press}}
- Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, Roman historian and politician (d. 394){{cite book|last1=Adkins|first1=Lesley|last2=Adkins|first2=Roy A.|title=Handbook to life in ancient Rome|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-5026-0|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGY1Sqjwf8kC&dq=Virius+Nicomachus+Flavianus+334%E2%80%93394&pg=PA17|edition=2nd}}
Deaths
- December 5 – Li Ban, Chinese emperor of Cheng-Han (b. 288)
- Calocaerus, Roman usurper
- Li Xiong, Chinese emperor of Cheng-Han (b. 274){{cite book|last1=Mutschler|first1=Fritz-Heiner|last2=Mittag|first2=Achim|title=Conceiving the empire: China and Rome compared|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-921464-8|page=397|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QjS7W-BtXOkC&dq=Li+Xiong+274%E2%80%93334&pg=PA397}}
- Shi Hong, Chinese emperor of the Jie state (b. 313){{cite book|last=Frédéric|first=Louis|title=Encyclopaedia of Asian civilizations|year=1977|volume=3|page=178|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3kwOAQAAMAAJ&q=Shi+Hong+313–334}}
- Tao Kan (or Shixing), Chinese general and politician (b. 259){{cite book|last=Pearce|first=Scott|editor1-last=Spiro|editor1-first=Audrey G.|editor2-last=Ebrey|editor2-first=Patricia Buckley|title=Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200–600|year=2001|publisher=Harvard Univ Asia Center|isbn=978-0-674-00523-5|page=76|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PASE4LVLzQ0C&dq=Tao+Kan+259%E2%80%93334&pg=PA76}}
- Wei Huacun (or Xianan), Chinese religious leader (b. 252){{cite book|last1=Liu|first1=Cheng-Tsai|last2=Zheng-Cai|first2=Liu|last3=Hua|first3=Ka|title=A Study of Daoist Acupuncture|year=1999|publisher=Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.|isbn=978-1-891845-08-6|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNUiHP7MPJMC&dq=Wei+Huacun+252–334&pg=PA17}}
- Yang Nandi, Chinese general and ruler of Chouchi