243 CE
Fan Chan of Funan sends a tribute mission to China (approximate date). Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Sassanids at Resaena (modern Syria); King Shapur I is forced to flee to the Euphrates. Cohors I Ubiorum, the garrison at Capidava in Scythia Minor, is replaced by Cohors I Germanorum Civium Romanorum, until the end of the 3rd century AD.
Conflict & Security
- Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Sassanids at Resaena (modern Syria); King Shapur I is forced to flee to the Euphrates.source
- Cohors I Ubiorum, the garrison at Capidava in Scythia Minor, is replaced by Cohors I Germanorum Civium Romanorum, until the end of the 3rd century AD.source
Exploration & Expansion
- Fan Chan of Funan sends a tribute mission to China (approximate date).source
Births
Deaths
- Timesitheus, Roman advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)source
- Emperor Gordian III appoints Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect (after the death of Timesitheus) and proceeds with his campaign in Mesopotamia.source
- Hu Zong (or Weize), Chinese official and general (b. 183)source
- Gu Yong (or Yuantan), Chinese official and politician (b. 168)source
- Xue Zong (or Jingwen), Chinese official, politician and poetsource
- Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I retreats to the Sassanid Empire, giving up all the territories he has conquered.source