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Heads of State

Year of the Wood horse甲午( at the beginning of the year, water - snake癸巳)

Syria: 525/526 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• The Three Kingdoms period in China: The Chinese warlord Liu Bei defeated Liu Zhang and conquered the land of Shu.
• The Chinese warlord Sun Quan can be set by the successes of his generals Lü Meng and Gan Ning in the summer on the northern bank of the Yangtze River. He conquered the city Huan of his rival Cao Cao.
• After the arrest and execution of Fu Shou by Chancellor Cao Cao Jie whose daughter is second wife of Emperor Han puppet Xiandi and last empress of the Han Dynasty in Imperial China.

Economy

• Emperor Caracalla leads towards the end of the Roman Empire a new monetary unit, the ( later so designated ) Antoninianus. The Antoninianus has a valence of nominally two denarii and early imprints a weight of about 5.5 grams. After the silver fineness calculated, it corresponds to from the beginning but only 1 1/2 denarius, a value will decrease with the years.

Born

• September 9: Aurelian, Roman Emperor († 275 )

• Yang Huiyu, Chinese Empress Dowager († 278)

• By 214: Claudius Gothicus, Roman emperor († 270)

Died

• Fu Shou, Chinese Empress