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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Dragon龙 辰( at the beginning of the year fire - hare丁卯)

Syria: 559/560 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Reich crisis of the 3rd century: in several Roman provinces such as usurpers raise Pacatianus and Iotapianus claim to the Roman throne, but will soon be murdered by their own troops.
  • Goths and Carpi invade Moesia. As the father of the emperor, Severian, is overwhelmed with the defense, receives Senator Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius the command of the provinces concerned and can attack back.

Culture and Society

  • Emperor Philip the Arab commits with big propaganda effort, the millennium of the foundation of Rome. Probably for this reason is the historian Asinius Quadratus his 15 -volume history of Rome out.

Died

  • Dongcheon, Korean king (* 209)
  • Heraclas of Alexandria, bishop of Alexandria
  • Himiko, Japanese Queen (c. 183)
  • Triệu AU, Vietnamese army leader (* 225)
  • Year ( 3rd century )
  • 248
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