These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... The 2nd century is the period from 101 - 200 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... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century Decades: 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s - 200s - 210s - 220s - 230s - 240s - 250s - 260s Years: 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 Significant people Cao Cao, King of Wei Caracalla, Roman Emperor Categories: 210s ... 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Events

By Place

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.

February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Gordian III Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius (January 20, 225-244), known in English as Gordian III, was Roman emperor from 238 to 244. ... Praetorian prefect (Latin Praefectus praetorio) was the constant title of a high office in the Roman state that changed fundamentally in nature. ... This coin struck under Philip to celebrate Saeculum Novum bears, on the reverse, a temple devoted to Roma goddess. ... Mesopotamia refers to the region now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran. ... Head of king Shapur II (Sasanian dynasty A.D. 4th century). ... Lucius Domitius Aurelianus (September 9, 214–275), known in English as Aurelian, Roman Emperor (270–275), was the second of several highly successful soldier-emperors who helped the Roman Empire regain its power during the latter part of the third century and the beginning of the fourth. ... For other uses, see Franks (disambiguation). ... Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Shahba, also known as Philippopolis, is a city located 87 km south of Damascus in the Hauran in an oasis. ...

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.

Plotinus Plotinus (Greek: ) (ca. ... Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is an ancient school of philosophy beginning in the 3rd century A.D. It was based on the teachings of Plato and Platonists; but it interpreted Plato in many new ways, such that Neoplatonism was quite different from what Plato taught, though not many Neoplatonists would...

Births

• Alexander of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (possible date)

Saint Alexander (between 237 and 244 - 337), bishop of Byzantium and first bishop of Constantinople until his death, as the city was then called (Theod. ... The Patriarch of Constantinople is the Ecumenical Patriarch, ranking as the first among equals in the Eastern Orthodox communion. ...

Deaths

• February 11 - Gordian III, Roman emperor
• Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica