In the year AD 397...

  • In the so-called "Gildonic War," North African potentate Gildo rebels against Rome, cutting off Rome's crucial North African grain shipments, but will be easily defeated by Roman forces the following year.
  • Saint Ninian establishes the first Christian church in Scotland and begins to preach to the Picts.

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These people died in 397:


396 - 397 - 398

4th century



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