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This article is about the year 284. For the number, see
284 (number)
. For the locomotive, see
2-8-4
.
Calendar year
Year
284
(
CCLXXXIV
) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
. At the time, it was known as the
Year of the Consulship of Carinus and Numerianus
(or, less frequently,
year 1037
Ab urbe condita
). The denomination 284 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.
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Roman Empire
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- Emperor
Numerian
travels through
Bithynia
(
Asia Minor
) on his way home to
Rome
. Suffering from an
inflammation
of the eyes, he travels in a closed
litter
in which soldiers find his decaying corpse.
- November 17
–
Diocletian
becomes emperor of Rome
[1]
- November 20
– The commander of Numerian's
domestici
(household troops),
Diocles
, is chosen to be the new emperor. In a military assembly outside
Nicomedia
(modern
?zmit
, Turkey), Diocles claims that the praetorian prefect (and rival for the throne) Arrius Aper murdered Numerian, and he personally stabs and kills the prefect on the spot. The new emperor changes his name to the Latinised 'Diocletian'. Building on existing trends, Diocletian presents his rule as that of a god-like
dominus
or autocrat.
- Sabinus Julianus
, the praetorian prefect of Emperor
Carinus
, exploits the instability and usurps the throne in northern Italy.
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