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- Events By place Roman Empire
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- Deaths
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{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2011}}{{Year dab|278}}{{unreferenced|date=November 2017}}{{Year nav|278}}{{M1 year in topic}}Year 278 (CCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (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 Lupus (or, less frequently, year 1031 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 278 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 By place Roman Empire - Emperor Probus defeats the Alamanni, advancing through the Neckar valley. He expels the Franks from Gaul and reorganizes the Roman defenses on the Rhine.
- Probus resettles the Germanic tribes in the devastated provinces of the Roman Empire. He adopts the titles of Gothicus Maximus and Germanicus Maximus.
- Piracy along the coast of Lycia and Pamphylia: The Romans besiege the city of Cremna (Pisidia) and kill the Isaurian robber Lydius.
Births - Abaye, Babylonian Amora (d. 339)
- Maxentius, Roman Emperor (d. 312)
- Sima Yu, Chinese crown prince of the Jin dynasty (d. 300)
Deaths - December 27 – Yang Hu, Chinese general and scholar of the Jin dynasty (b. 221)
- Fu Xuan, Chinese scholar and poet (b. 217)
- Yang Huiyu, Chinese empress dowager of the Jin dynasty (b. 214)
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