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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
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279 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 279
CCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita 1032
Assyrian calendar 5029
Balinese saka calendar 200–201
Bengali calendar −314
Berber calendar 1229
Buddhist calendar 823
Burmese calendar −359
Byzantine calendar 5787–5788
Chinese calendar 戊戌年 (Earth  Dog)
2976 or 2769
     to 
己亥年 (Earth  Pig)
2977 or 2770
Coptic calendar −5 – −4
Discordian calendar 1445
Ethiopian calendar 271–272
Hebrew calendar 4039–4040
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 335–336
 - Shaka Samvat 200–201
 - Kali Yuga 3379–3380
Holocene calendar 10279
Iranian calendar 343 BP – 342 BP
Islamic calendar 354 BH – 353 BH
Javanese calendar 158–159
Julian calendar 279
CCLXXIX
Korean calendar 2612
Minguo calendar 1633 before ROC
民前1633年
Nanakshahi calendar −1189
Seleucid era 590/591 AG
Thai solar calendar 821–822
Tibetan calendar 阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
405 or 24 or −748
     to 
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
406 or 25 or −747
Emperor Sima Yan by Yan Liben Jin Wu Di.jpg
Emperor Sima Yan by Yan Liben

Year 279 ( CCLXXIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Probus and Paternus (or, less frequently, year 1032 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 279 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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  1. The Zizhi Tongjian recorded that the Jin dynasty launched the invasion of Eastern Wu in the 11th month of the 5th year of the Xianning era of Sima Yan's reign. [1] This month corresponds to 21 December 279 to 18 January 280 in the Gregorian calendar.

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References

  1. Zizhi Tongjian 1084, vol. 80: "[咸寧五年]冬,十一月,大舉伐吳"

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