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By place Roman Empire • Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns on the rivers Danube and Rhine in Germania, defeating the Alemanni, and never visits Rome. He is accepted by the Roman Senate, but taxes the rich aristocracy heavily, and engenders such hostility among them, that they plot against him. He had a road rebuilt in what is now the Golan Heights, between 236 and 237. Persia • King Ardashir I of Persia renews his attacks on the Roman province of Mesopotamia. By topic Religion • Patriarch Eugenius I succeeds Patriarch Castinus as Patriarch of Constantinople. • Saint Babylas becomes Patriarch of Antioch. == Births ==

• Alexander of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople • Guo Huai (or Yuhuang), Chinese noblewoman (d. 296) • Philip II (the Younger), Roman emperor (d. 249) == Deaths ==

• February 7 – Chen Qun, Chinese official and politician • September 22 – Mingdao (or Mao), Chinese empress • Wu Yi (or Ziyuan), Chinese general of the Shu Han state • Zhang (or '''Jing'ai'''), Chinese empress of the Shu Han state == References ==