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Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century 4th century 5th century
Decades:	370s 380s 390s 400s 410s
Years:	387 388 389 390 391 392 393
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390 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 390
CCCXC

Ab urbe condita 1143

Assyrian calendar 5140

Balinese saka calendar 311–312

Bengali calendar −204 – −203

Berber calendar 1340

Buddhist calendar 934

Burmese calendar −248

Byzantine calendar 5898–5899

Chinese calendar 己丑年 (Earth Ox)
3087 or 2880
— to —
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
3088 or 2881

Coptic calendar 106–107

Discordian calendar 1556

Ethiopian calendar 382–383

Hebrew calendar 4150–4151

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 446–447

- Shaka Samvat 311–312

- Kali Yuga 3490–3491

Holocene calendar 10390

Iranian calendar 232 BP – 231 BP

Islamic calendar 239 BH – 238 BH

Javanese calendar 273–274

Julian calendar 390
CCCXC

Korean calendar 2723

Minguo calendar 1522 before ROC
民前1522年

Nanakshahi calendar −1078

Seleucid era 701/702 AG

Thai solar calendar 932–933

Tibetan calendar 阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
516 or 135 or −637
— to —
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
517 or 136 or −636

Emperor Theodosius I and Ambrose, by Anthony van Dyck

Year 390 (CCCXC ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Neoterius (or, less frequently, year 1143 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 390 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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April – Massacre of Thessalonica: Resentment among the citizens of Thessalonica (Macedonia) breaks out into violence after the arrest of a popular charioteer. Butheric, military commander of Illyricum, is murdered. Emperor Theodosius I orders vengeance, despite the pleas for mercy by Ambrose, bishop of Milan; more than 7,000 inhabitants are massacred by the Roman army.
Ambrose retires to Milan (residence of Theodosius I) and refuses to celebrate a mass in the emperor's presence, until he repents for ordering the massacre in Thessalonica. Theodosius, filled with remorse, kneels in humility and strips off his royal purple, before the altar of the cathedral in Milan, humbling himself before the church.
The Visigoths and Huns, led by Alaric, invade Thrace. Stilicho, high-ranking general (magister militum ) of Vandal origin, raises an army and begins a campaign against the Goths.
Theodosius I brings an obelisk from Egypt to the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

India

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Rudrasena II of Vakataka succeeds his father, Prthivisena I.^[1] In the same year he marries Prabhavatigupta, daughter of the Gupta king Chandragupta II.

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C. 390–401 – Priestess of Bacchus: Late Antiquity ivory diptych; documents the relationship of the senators Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. It commemorates the marriage of the two families. The right panel is inscribed "Symmachorum", with an elaborately dressed priestess who makes an offer on an altar. It is now kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.