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EVENTS

Roman Empire

--- Roman Emperor Gordian III is killer by his Praetorian Prefect Philip The Arab after Phillip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.

--- Philip The Arab becomes Roman Emperor

---Rome loses Mesopotamia and Armenia to the Sassanides .

--- Aurelian defeats the {Link without Title} ] at Mainz .

---Philip the Arab constucts the city of Shahba , in Syria, the province of his birth.

Arts and Sciences

--- Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.

BIRTHS

Alexander Of Constantinople , Patriarch Of Constantinople (possible date)

DEATHS

Gordian III , Roman Emperor

Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica