279

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Instance of: year
Part of: 270s
Followed by: 280
Follows: 278

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has list: list of state leaders in 279
category for births in this time period: Category:279 births
category for deaths in this time period: Category:279 deaths
Commons category: 279
topic's main category: Category:279
point in time: 0279-01-01

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Emperor Sima Yan by Yan Liben

Year 279 (CCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Probus and Paternus (or, less frequently, year 1032 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 279 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.

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