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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	200s 210s 220s – 230s – 240s 250s 260s
Years:	232 233 234 – 235 – 236 237 238

This article is about the year. For the number, see 235 (number).

[edit] Events

Pressure on Rome by Goths, Quadi, Sassanids, Franks and Alemanni increases. Following a defeat by the Germans, Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea, are massacred near Mainz (Mongontiacum) by his soldiers. Severan dynasty ends.
Maximinus Thrax becomes Emperor. Having a Gothic father and an Alan mother, he is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne. His accession leads to the Crisis of the Third Century.

A number of church leaders, among whom are Pope Pontian and Hippolytus, are exiled to Sardinia.
September 28—Pope Pontian resigns.
November 21—Pope Anterus succeeds Pope Pontian as the nineteenth pope.
Origen makes revisions to the Septuagint.

235 by topic v • d • e
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments