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Year of the Water Pig癸亥( at the beginning of the year Water Dog壬戌)

Syria: 554/555 ( year in October )

Events

• The Roman commander Timesitheus, father of Emperor Gordian III. , The Sassanid Empire conquered under Shapur I. Roman- Persian war, but died soon afterwards. His successor as praetorian prefect is a native of Arabia Julius Philippus.

Born

• Sun Liang, Chinese emperor († 260)

• By 243: Iamblichus of Chalcis, Greek philosopher ( † about 323)

Died

• Timesitheus, Roman politician