276

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 2nd century3rd century4th century
Decades: 240s  250s  260s  – 270s –  280s  290s  300s
Years: 273 274 275 – 276277 278 279
276 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar276
CCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita1029
Assyrian calendar5026
Balinese saka calendar197–198
Bengali calendar−317
Berber calendar1226
Buddhist calendar820
Burmese calendar−362
Byzantine calendar5784–5785
Chinese calendar乙未(Wood Goat)
2972 or 2912
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
2973 or 2913
Coptic calendar−8 – −7
Discordian calendar1442
Ethiopian calendar268–269
Hebrew calendar4036–4037
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat332–333
 - Shaka Samvat197–198
 - Kali Yuga3376–3377
Holocene calendar10276
Iranian calendar346 BP – 345 BP
Islamic calendar357 BH – 356 BH
Javanese calendar155–156
Julian calendar276
CCLXXVI
Korean calendar2609
Minguo calendar1636 before ROC
民前1636年
Nanakshahi calendar−1192
Seleucid era587/588 AG
Thai solar calendar818–819
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
402 or 21 or −751
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
403 or 22 or −750
Emperor Probus

Year 276 (CCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

  • Emperor Tacitus doubled the silver content of the Roman currency.
  • Marcus Annius Florianus defeats the Goths and Alans who have invaded Asia Minor. Tacitus dies of illness or is murdered at Tyana in Cappadocia.
  • Florianus becomes Roman Emperor. He stops his battles against the Heruli and marches from the Bosporus. He has support from the Roman legions in Britain, Gaul, Spain and Italy. No one is the winner in a battle with Marcus Aurelius Probus in Cilicia.
  • Florianus keeps power for some weeks. Then he is assassinated by his own troops near Tarsus (Turkey). Probus, age 44, is the new Emperor of Rome.
  • Probus picks Marcus Aurelius Carus to Prefect of the Praetorian Guard.

Asia

  • King Bahram I of Persia dies after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Bahram II.
  • Reign of Mahasena in Ceylon. He tries to introduce Mahayana Buddhism to the country.

By topic

Religion

Births

  • Gregory the Elder, bishop of Nazianzus (approximate date)
  • Guo Pu, Chinese writer (d. 324)
  • Jin Yuandi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 323)
  • Wang Dao, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (d. 339)

Deaths