Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 251 A.D. through 300 A.D.
- 251 to 300
- Emperor Gallus (251 - 253)
- Emperor Valerian (253 - 260) and his son Gallienus (260 - 268)
- Goths, divided into Visigoths and Ostrogoths, invade Black
Sea area (257)
- Franks invade Spain (257); Alemanni and Suevi conquer Upper
Italy, but are defeated at Milan (258)
- Emperor Claudius II (268 - 270)
- The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth (268)
- Emperor Aurelian (270 - 275): "restitutor orbis"
- Marcomanni advance from Bohemia across the Danube (270)
- Aurelian defeats Macromanni and Alemanni and rebuilds the
walls of Rome (271)
- Aurelian overthrows kingdom of Palmyra (273)
- Emperor Marcus Aurelius Probus (276 - 282)
- Emperor Marcus Aurelius Carus (282 - 283)
- Emperor Diocletian (284 - 305)
- Partition of the Roman Empire into western and eastern
empires (285)
- Carausius, Roman commander of Brit. fleet, proclaims
himself independent emperor of Britain (285)
- The Romans take Armenia from the Persians (297)
- Separate developments of the five German dukedoms:
Saxons, Franks, Alemanni, Thuringians, and Goths
(c. 300)
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