230s

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Events

• 231: The Sassanid Ardashir I begins the struggle with Rome in order to bring northern Mesopotamia under his rule.
• 232: Plotinus, a Greek philosopher and the founder of Neo-Platonism, the study of philosophy in Alexandria begin.
• 233: Emperor M. Aurelius Severus Alexander cancels his Persie campaign and marched against the Germanic tribes who invaded the Roman border provinces of Raetia and Upper Germany.
• 234: Zhuge Liang, the prime minister and regent of the Chinese Shu- empire, dies. The power of Shu forfeited.
• March 235: The Roman Emperor Alexander Severus slain in Mainz by soldiers who Maximinus Thrax raise the new emperor. Beginning of the period of soldier-emperors and the imperial crisis of the 3rd century.
• 235: Roman-Germanic Battle of the resin ( resin horn event).