244
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This article is about the year 244. For the number (and other uses), see 244 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
| Decades: | 210s 220s 230s – 240s – 250s 260s 270s |
| Years: | 241 242 243 – 244 – 245 246 247 |
| 244 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 244 CCXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 997 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4994 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1600–-1599 |
| Bengali calendar | -349 |
| Berber calendar | 1194 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 788 |
| Burmese calendar | -394 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5752–5753 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十二月初四日 (2880/2940-12-4) — to —
甲子年十一月十五日(2881/2941-11-15) |
| Coptic calendar | -40–-39 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 236–237 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4004–4005 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 300–301 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 166–167 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3345–3346 |
| Holocene calendar | 10244 |
| Iranian calendar | 378 BP – 377 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 390 BH – 389 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2577 |
| Minguo calendar | 1668 before ROC 民前1668年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 787 |
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Year 244 (CCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Armenius and Aemilianus (or, less frequently, year 997 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 244 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- Battle of Misiche: King Shapur I delivers a counter-attack near Fallujah (Iraq) and defeats the Roman army upstream of the Euphrates.
- February 11 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
- Philip the Arab declares himself co-emperor and makes a disgraceful peace with the Persians. He evacuates Syria and gives Shapur I 500,000 gold pieces.
- Philip the Arab constructs the city of Shahba (Syria), the province of his birth. The Persians occupied Armenia.
- Philip the Arab is recognized by the Roman Senate as new Roman Emperor and gives his brother Priscus supreme power (rector Orientis) in the Eastern provinces.
- Philippus I is proclaimed Augustus, he nominates his son Philippus, age 6, with the title of Caesar and heir to the throne.
[edit] Asia
- Guanqiu Jian of Cao Wei invades Goguryeo, devastating their capital.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Arts and sciences
- Plotinus, Greek philosopher, escapes the bloodshed that accompanies the murder of Gordianus III and makes his way to Antioch. Back to Rome he founds his Neoplatonist school and attracts students like Porphyry, Castricius Firmus and Eustochius of Alexandria.
- 244–249 – Philip the Arab, is made. It is now kept at Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome.
- 244–245 – House-synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, is built. It is reconstructed in the National Museum of Damascus (Syria).
[edit] Commerce
- The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 0.5 percent under emperor Philippus I, down from 28 percent under Gordian III.
[edit] Births
- December 22 – Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Roman Emperor
- Alexander of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (possible date)
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 – Gordian III, Roman emperor (b. 225)
- Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica
- Cao Xun (b. 230)
- Zhang Cheng, general of Eastern Wu (b. 178)
