244
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This article is about the year 244. For other uses, see 244 (number).
| 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 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1600 – -1599 |
| Berber calendar | 1194 |
| 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 | 299 – 300 |
| - 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 |
| Thai solar calendar | 787 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Roman Empire
- February 11 — Emperor Gordian III is killed by his Praetorian Prefect Philip the Arab after Phillip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.
- Philip the Arab becomes Emperor.
- Rome loses Mesopotamia and Armenia to the Sassanides.
- Aurelian defeats the Franks at Mainz.
- Philip the Arab constucts the city of Shahba, in Syria, the province of his birth.
[edit] By Topic
[edit] Arts and Sciences
- Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.
[edit] Births
- 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)
