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.
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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
Decades and years
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