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273 CE

The year also saw most lost territories to rebellion returned to the Roman Empire by Emperor Aurelian.

Conflict & Security

  • In bitter street-fighting, Aurelian crushes a rebellion in Alexandria by Firmus, a sympathizer of Palmyra. Firmus is strangled to death.source
  • Aurelian sacks the city of Palmyra, after putting down a second revolt.source
  • Emperor Aurelian defeats an incursion by the Carpi into Moesia and Thrace.source

Culture & Society

  • Marcus Claudius Tacitus, future Roman Emperor, is consul in Rome.source

Deaths

  • June 1 – Reverianus, Christian bishopsource
  • Callinicus, Greek historian and sophistsource
  • King Hormizd I of Persia dies after a brief reign in which he has shown tolerance toward the ascetic, anti-materialist Manichean faith. He is succeeded by his brother Bahram I, who has been governing the province of Atropatene. Bahram proceeds to crush a rebellion by various vassal kings.source
  • Dexippus, Greek general and historiansource
  • Septimius Antiochus, Roman usurpersource
  • Wei Zhao, Chinese historian and scholar (b. 204)source
  • Hormizd I, king of the Sassanid Empiresource
  • Cassius Longinus, Greek philosophersource