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Contents

Events

By Topic

Roman Empire

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Topic

Roman Empire

★ Emperor Aurelian reconquers the kingdom of Palmyra, composed of Syria, Egypt and large parts of Asia Minor, forcing queen Zenobia to flee to Parthia.

★ During the Siege of Tyana, Aurelian has a dream of Apollonius of Tyana and spares the city.

★ Palmyra is destroyed after a revolt, and Egypt is forced to subject to Roman rule.

★ Rome forms an alliance with the king of Aksum (Axum).

Asia

★ Sassanid Shah Hormizd I succeeds Shapur I.

By Topic

Religion

★ Dometius succeeds Titus as Patriarch of Constantinople.

★ Saint Denis, the first bishop of Paris, and two of his disciples are beheaded near a hill outside of the city. The hill will later be called Montmartre, the Mountain of the Martyrs, in their honor.

★ Paul of Samosata is deposed as Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

★ February 27 — Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire (306)

★ Wei Shuo, calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Deaths

★ Saint Denis

★ Shapur I

★ Liu Qubei, Right Prince of the Southern Xiongnu

★ Sima Fu, younger brother of Sima Yi