AD 84

Summary

AD 84 (LXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sabinus (or, less frequently, year 837 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 84 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
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AD 84 in various calendars
Gregorian calendarAD 84
LXXXIV
Ab urbe condita837
Assyrian calendar4834
Balinese saka calendar5–6
Bengali calendar−509
Berber calendar1034
Buddhist calendar628
Burmese calendar−554
Byzantine calendar5592–5593
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
2781 or 2574
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
2782 or 2575
Coptic calendar−200 – −199
Discordian calendar1250
Ethiopian calendar76–77
Hebrew calendar3844–3845
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat140–141
 - Shaka Samvat5–6
 - Kali Yuga3184–3185
Holocene calendar10084
Iranian calendar538 BP – 537 BP
Islamic calendar555 BH – 554 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarAD 84
LXXXIV
Korean calendar2417
Minguo calendar1828 before ROC
民前1828年
Nanakshahi calendar−1384
Seleucid era395/396 AG
Thai solar calendar626–627
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
210 or −171 or −943
    — to —
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
211 or −170 or −942

Events edit

By place edit

Roman Empire edit

  • Possible date of the Battle of Mons Graupius (AD 83 or 84), in which Gnaeus Julius Agricola defeats the Caledonians.[1][2]
  • Emperor Domitian recalls Agricola back to Rome, where he is rewarded with a triumph and the governorship of the Roman province Africa, but he declines it.[citation needed]
  • Pliny the Younger is sevir equitum Romanorum (commander of a cavalry squadron).[citation needed]
  • The construction of the limes, a line of Roman fortifications from the Rhine to the Danube, is begun.[3]
  • Through his election as consul for ten years and censor for life, Domitian openly subordinates the republican aspect of the state to the monarchical.[citation needed]
  • Domitian increases the troops' pay by one third, thus securing their loyalty.[4]

Asia edit

  • Change from Jianchu to Yuanhe era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.[citation needed]

Deaths edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Mons Graupius UChicago.edu".
  2. ^ "Mons Graupius Omni Atlas".
  3. ^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Serbia)". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
  4. ^ Brunt, P. A. (1950). "Pay and Superannuation in the Roman Army". Papers of the British School at Rome. 18: 50–71. ISSN 0068-2462.