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Contents

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

★ Pressure on Rome by Goths, Quadi, Parthians, Franks and Alemanni increases. Following a defeat by the Germans, Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea, are massacred near Mainz (Mongontiacum) by his soldiers. Severan dynasty ends.

★ Maximinus Thrax becomes Emperor. Having a Gothic father and an Alan mother, he is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne. His accession led to the Crisis of the Third Century.

By Topic

Religion

★ A number of church leaders, among whom are Pope Pontian and Hippolytus, are exiled to Sardinia.

★ September 28 — Pope Pontian resigns.

★ November 21 — Pope Anterus succeeds Pope Pontian as the nineteenth pope.

★ Origen makes revisions to the Septuagint.

Births

★ Sun Xiu, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu

Deaths

★ Alexander Severus, Roman Emperor

★ Hippolytus, Christian writer

★ Pope Pontian

★ Yang Yi, minister of Shu

★ Chen Zhen, minister under Liu Bei of Shu

★ Ke Bineng

★ Empress Wende