By place Roman Empire • The
Goths ravage
Asia Minor and
Trapezus. • The amount of
silver in the
Roman currency of the
denarius falls below 10%. The
crisis ruins
craftsmen,
tradesmen, and small
farmers, who are forced into
bartering; landowners grow richer by buying up cheap land. •
Valerian II, eldest son of
Gallienus, dies, possibly murdered by
Pannonia's governor
Ingenuus; Emperor
Valerian bestows on another one of Gallienus's sons,
Saloninus, the title of
Caesar. • A second Imperial
edict prohibits
Christianity in the Roman Empire. This edict divides Christians into four categories:
priests, who are to be put to death; senators and
equestrians, who are to be stripped of their positions and their property confiscated;
nuns, who are to be exiled; and imperial civil servants, who are condemned to forced labour.
Asia •
Sima Zhao quells
Zhuge Dan's rebellion, thereby also ending what are known as the
Three Rebellions in Shouchun. •
Sun Xiu succeeds his brother
Sun Liang as emperor of the Chinese state of
Eastern Wu.
By topic Religion •
Cyprian, bishop of
Carthage, is martyred (
decapitation). • Pope
Sixtus II, bishop of
Rome, is martyred. == Births ==