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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)

Syria: 551/552 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• 240: Shapur I. succeeds his father Ardashir I as ruler of the Persian Sassanid Empire, Ardashir although still lives to about 242.
• Or 241: The Persian Empire under Shapur I. conquered the allied with the Roman Empire city of Hatra. This is casus belli for another Roman- Persian war.

Sports

• A similar game is the fist ball of Emperor Gordian III. first mentioned.

Born

• 240: Diocletian, Roman emperor († 316)
• 240: Maximian, Roman co-emperor († 310)

Died

• Zebinus, Bishop of Antioch

• 240: Licinius Rufinus, Roman jurist and civil servant