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.

These people were born in 397:

These people died in 397:

• Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and converter of Saint Augustine.
• Saint Martin of Tours.
• Paulina, wife of Saint Pammachius.

396 - 397 - 398

4th century

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