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.

Overview

Events

The Baths of Caracalla, in 2003

• 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
• 184-280: Period of the Three Kingdoms
• 280-420: Jin Dynasty (265-420) of China
• Sarnath becomes a centre 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
• Zhuge Liang, known as the greatest strategist during the period of the Three Kingdoms
• Liu Bei, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu
• Cao Cao, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Wei

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• A primitive form of glasses were developed for a nearsighted princess in Syria.
• Compass invented in China

Decades and years