3rd Century

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The 3rd century is the period from 201 - 300 in accordance with the Julian Calendar in the Christian Era .

Overview

Events

212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants Citizenship to all free Roman men

212-216: Baths Of Caracalla

230-232: Sassanid Dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east

235-284: Crisis Of The Third Century shakes Roman Empire

250-538: Kofun Era , the first part of the Yamato Period in Japan

258: Valerian 's Massacre of Christians

260: Roman Emperor Valerian I is taken captive by Shapur I of Persia

265-420: Jin Dynasty (265-420) of China

Sarnath becomes a center of Buddhist arts in India

Diffusion of Maize as a food crop from Mexico into North America begins

The Kingdom of Funan reaches its zenith under the rule of Fan Shih-man

The Goths move from Gothiscandza to Ukraine and shape the Chernyakhov Culture

Significant persons

Clement Of Alexandria

Diocletian , Roman emperor

Diophantus Of Alexandria , wrote ''Arithmetica''

Hippolytus , considered first Antipope

Liu Hui , Chinese mathematician

Mani (prophet) , founder of Manichaeism

Origen

Pappus Of Alexandria , Greek mathematician

Plotinus , founder of Neoplatonism

Tertullian , sometimes called ''father of Latin church''

Wang Pi , Taoist

M. Sattonius Iucundus , restorer of the Thermae in Heerlen

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

A primitive form of Glasses were developed for a nearsighted princess in Syria .

Compass invented in China

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