297

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297 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 297
CCXCVII

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Ab urbe condita| 1050
Assyrian calendar| 5047
Balinese saka calendar| 218–219
Bengali calendar| −297 – −296
Berber calendar| 1247
Buddhist calendar| 841
Burmese calendar| −341
Byzantine calendar| 5805–5806
Chinese calendar| 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
2994 or 2787
— to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
2995 or 2788
Coptic calendar| 13–14
Discordian calendar| 1463
Ethiopian calendar| 289–290
Hebrew calendar| 4057–4058
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 353–354
\- Shaka Samvat| 218–219
\- Kali Yuga| 3397–3398
Holocene calendar| 10297
Iranian calendar| 325 BP – 324 BP
Islamic calendar| 335 BH – 334 BH
Javanese calendar| 177–178
Julian calendar| 297
CCXCVII
Korean calendar| 2630
Minguo calendar| 1615 before ROC
民前1615年
Nanakshahi calendar| −1171
Seleucid era| 608/609 AG
Thai solar calendar| 839–840
Tibetan calendar| མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
423 or 42 or −730
— to —
མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Fire-Snake)
424 or 43 or −729

Year 297 (CCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius (or, less frequently, year 1050 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 297 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.

## Events

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#### Roman Empire

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* Emperor Diocletian introduces a new tax system and other economic reforms.[1]
* Diocletian watches over the Syrian provinces while Caesar Galerius makes preparations for a campaign against the Persian king Narseh. He recruits veterans from Illyria and Moesia, recruits new soldiers, and strengthens his army with Gothic mercenaries and the Armenian units of Tiridates III.
* August: Domitius Domitianus launches a usurpation against Diocletian in Egypt. He is perhaps aided by popular discontent with Diocletian's taxation reform.
* Autumn: Diocletian besieges the rebels in Alexandria.
* December: Domitianus dies, but his corrector Aurelius Achilleus takes over as the leader of the rebellion.
* Battle of Satala: Galerius launches a surprise attack against Narseh's camp in western Armenia. The Romans sack the camp and capture Narseh's wives, sisters and daughters, including his Queen of Queens Arsane. Narseh is wounded and escapes to his empire.

## Births

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* Murong Huang, ruler of the Former Yan (d. 348)
* Yu Wenjun, empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 328)

## Deaths

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* Chen Shou, author of the San Guo Zhi (b. 233)
* Zhou Chu, Jin dynasty general, son of Zhou Fang (b. 236)

## References

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1. ^ Merrony, Mark (July 6, 2017). The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD. Taylor & Francis. p. 94\. ISBN 978-1-351-70279-9.

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