253

Year 253 (CCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 2nd century3rd century4th century
Decades: 220s  230s  240s 250s 260s  270s  280s
Years: 250 251 252253254 255 256
253 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar253
CCLIII
Ab urbe condita1006
Assyrian calendar5003
Balinese saka calendar174–175
Bengali calendar−340
Berber calendar1203
Buddhist calendar797
Burmese calendar−385
Byzantine calendar5761–5762
Chinese calendar壬申(Water Monkey)
2949 or 2889
     to 
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
2950 or 2890
Coptic calendar−31 – −30
Discordian calendar1419
Ethiopian calendar245–246
Hebrew calendar4013–4014
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat309–310
 - Shaka Samvat174–175
 - Kali Yuga3353–3354
Holocene calendar10253
Iranian calendar369 BP – 368 BP
Islamic calendar380 BH – 379 BH
Javanese calendar132–133
Julian calendar253
CCLIII
Korean calendar2586
Minguo calendar1659 before ROC
民前1659年
Nanakshahi calendar−1215
Seleucid era564/565 AG
Thai solar calendar795–796
Tibetan calendar阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
379 or −2 or −774
     to 
阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
380 or −1 or −773
Emperor Gallienus

Events

Roman Empire

  • Period of the Thirty Tyrants in the Roman empire.
  • Aemilianus is called "enemy of the State" by the Roman Senate.
  • Aemilianus rules for 3 months the Roman Empire. He promises to fight in Thrace and goes to war against Persia. The Senate gives him the rank of Pontifex Maximus.
  • Aemilianus is murdered at Spoletium. Publius Valerianus made new emperor by the Rhine legions.
  • Valerianus I splits the Roman Empire in two.
  • Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I, defeats the Roman army (70,000 men) under Valerianus I at Barbalissos in Syria.

Religion

Births

    Deaths

    • Pope Cornelius
    • Aemilianus, Roman emperor
    • Trebonianus Gallus, Roman emperor
    • Volusianus, Roman emperor
    • Saint Babylas, Patriarch of Antioch
    • Fei Yi, general-in-chief of the Shu Kingdom
    • Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, nephew of Zhuge Liang, officer of the Wu Kingdom (b. 203)
    • Sun He, son of Sun Quan
    • Ehe Shaoge, a general of Qiang

    References

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