287

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287 by topic
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287 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 287
CCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita 1040
Assyrian calendar 5037
Balinese saka calendar 208–209
Bengali calendar −307 – −306
Berber calendar 1237
Buddhist calendar 831
Burmese calendar −351
Byzantine calendar 5795–5796
Chinese calendar 丙午年 (Fire  Horse)
2984 or 2777
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire  Goat)
2985 or 2778
Coptic calendar 3–4
Discordian calendar 1453
Ethiopian calendar 279–280
Hebrew calendar 4047–4048
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 343–344
 - Shaka Samvat 208–209
 - Kali Yuga 3387–3388
Holocene calendar 10287
Iranian calendar 335 BP – 334 BP
Islamic calendar 345 BH – 344 BH
Javanese calendar 167–168
Julian calendar 287
CCLXXXVII
Korean calendar 2620
Minguo calendar 1625 before ROC
民前1625年
Nanakshahi calendar −1181
Seleucid era 598/599 AG
Thai solar calendar 829–830
Tibetan calendar མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Horse)
413 or 32 or −740
    — to —
མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
414 or 33 or −739

Year 287 ( CCLXXXVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Diocletian and Maximian (or, less frequently, year 1040 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 287 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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  • On the same day that he is made consul, Maximian launches a campaign against an invasion of Gaul by the Alemanni. After defeating this invasion, he then invades Alemannia itself, entering across the Upper Rhine and returning to Roman territory via the Upper Danube.
  • Around this time, the future emperor Constantius defeats and captures a Germanic king, the latter having prepared an ambush against the Romans.
  • Diocletian signs a peace treaty with King Bahram II of Persia, and installs the pro-Roman Arsacid Tiridates III as king over the western portion of Armenia.
  • Diocletian re-organizes the Mesopotamian frontier, and fortifies various locations including the city of Circesium (modern Busayrah) on the Euphrates. Around this time, he begins the construction of the Strata Diocletiana. Throughout his reign, similar fortification efforts are conducted on the other frontiers as well, with fortifications constructed or restored behind, on and beyond the borders. Conscription and the number of legions increase, although the legions themselves are reformed into smaller and more flexible units. At some point in time, Diocletian may have also established the late Roman military system of Comitatenses (field army units) and Limitanei (border units), but some scholars date this development to the reign of Constantine I (r. 306–337).
  • September – The first Indiction begins.

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