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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)
Syria: 552/553 ( year in October )
Events
- Or 240: The Persian Empire under the Sassanid Shapur I. conquered the allied with the Roman Empire city of Hatra. This is casus belli for another Roman- Persian war.
- The Roman Emperor Gordian III. married Furia Sabinia Tranquillina, the daughter of the praetorian prefect Timesitheus.
Born
- Cao Mao, Chinese emperor († 260)
Died
- Year ( 3rd century )
- 241