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.
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[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 she the Chernyakhov culture
[edit] Significant persons
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- 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 |
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| 4th: | 31st | 32nd | ||||||||
