3rd century

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Centuries:	2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century
Decades:	200s 210s 220s 230s 240s 250s 260s 270s 280s 290s

The 3rd century is the period from 201 - 300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Events 3 Significant persons 4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 5 Decades and years

[edit] Overview

[edit] 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
• 184-280: Period of the Three Kingdoms
• 280-420: 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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

[edit] Decades and years

190s	190	191	192	193	194	195	196	197	198	199
200s	200	201	202	203	204	205	206	207	208	209
210s	210	211	212	213	214	215	216	217	218	219
220s	220	221	222	223	224	225	226	227	228	229
230s	230	231	232	233	234	235	236	237	238	239
240s	240	241	242	243	244	245	246	247	248	249
250s	250	251	252	253	254	255	256	257	258	259
260s	260	261	262	263	264	265	266	267	268	269
270s	270	271	272	273	274	275	276	277	278	279
280s	280	281	282	283	284	285	286	287	288	289
290s	290	291	292	293	294	295	296	297	298	299
300s	300	301	302	303	304	305	306	307	308	309