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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

★ The revolts of Pacatianus in Moesia and Iotapianus in Syria are put down by senator Decius, by order of Emperor Philip the Arab.

★ The Roman empire continues the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the city of Rome the ''ludi saeculares'' organized by Philip the Arab.

By Topic

Religion

★ Cyprian becomes bishop of Carthage.

★ Origen writes an eight-volume work criticizing the pagan writer Celsus.

Births

★ Flavia Iulia Helena, later Augusta of the Roman Empire.(approximate date)

Deaths

★ Himiko, Queen of Japan

★ Trieu Thi Trinh, Vietnamese, female warrior

★ Zhu Ran, general of Wu

★ Wu Can, general of Wu

★ Wang Ping, general of Shu