350

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	320s  330s  340s  – 350s –  360s  370s  380s
Years:	347 348 349 – 350 – 351 352 353

Magnus Magnentius

Year 350 (CCCL) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Roman Empire

• January 18 – Emperor Constans I is very unliked. Magnus Magnentius is made emperor at Autun (Gaul).
• January – Constans I runs away to Spain. He is killed. Magnentius rules the Western Roman Empire. He is nicer to Christians and Pagans.
• March 1 – Vetranio is asked by Constantina to make himself Caesar. Constantius accepts the new emperor.
• June 3 – Iulius Nepotianus, Roman usurper, calls himself "emperor". He enters Rome with a group of gladiators.
• June 30 – Nepotianus is defeated and killed by Marcellinus.
• December 25 – Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia). He is forced to give up his title.

Asia

• About this time the Huns begin to invade the Sassanid Empire.
• The city of Anbar (Iraq) is founded by king Shapur II.
• The Wei-Jie war breaks out in North China.

Art

• The church of Santa Constanza in Rome is finished.

Births

• Honoratus, archbishop of Arles (approximate date)
• Hypatia of Alexandria, female Neoplatonist philosopher (approximate date)
• Murong Wei, emperor of the Xianbei state Former Yan (d. 385)
• Plutarch of Athens, Greek philosopher (approximate date)
• Theodore of Mopsuestia, bishop and theologian (approximate date)
• Zhang Xuanjing, ruler of the Chinese state Former Liang (d. 363)

Deaths

• Constans I, Roman Emperor
• Eutropia, mother of Nepotianus
• June 30 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
• Shi Jian, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao

350 Media

• 

  Nepotianus died on June 30, 350