Statue of Ulpian, a Lebanese Roman jurist born in Tyre. He was considered one of the great legal authorities of his time and was one of the five jurists upon whom decisions were to be based according to the Law of Citations of Valentinian III.
Tyre was the capital of Phoenice, but the Roman emperor Elagabalus (r. 218–222) raised his native Emesa (modern-day Homs) to co-capital, leading to a rivalry between the two cities as the head of the province.[1]
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The Tyrian-born Ulpian, Latin: Gnaeus Domitius Annius Ulpianus; a Roman jurist and one of the great legal authorities, under Severus Alexander, serves as praetorian prefect from 222 AD.[8]
The Third century Crisis begins with the assassination of the Lebanese Roman emperor Severus Alexander, 21/22 March 235 AD.[9]Porphire Sophiste, in a French 16th-century engraving
Origen, an early Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian, dies in Tyre, c.253 AD (aged c.69).[12]
260s
Salvius Theodorus is Propraetorial Imperial Legate of Phoenicia in 268 AD.
270s
The Palmyrene empire is established in 270 AD with the start of Zenobia's expedition against the Tanukhids in the spring of the same year, leading to the occupation of Roman Phoenice by the Syrian Palmyrenes.[13]
The Palmyrene Empire in 271
Pagan temples are attested in a Greek inscription mentioning the date 272 AD found in the Mar Mama church in Ehden.[14]
The Palmyrene empire is reconquered by the Romans, 273 AD.
Saint Moura, an Egyptian Saint that is almost exclusively celebrated amongst Maronites, is martyred in 283 AD, Ansena, Egypt.[17]
The Third century Crisis ends with the ascension of Diocletian and his implementation of reforms in 284 AD.
L. Artorius Pius Maximus is Propraetorial Imperial Legate of Phoenicia in 284 AD.
The Roman mint in Tripolis closes down in 286/287 AD.
290s
Crispinus is Propraetorial Imperial Legate of Phoenicia, 292 – 293.
Aquilina, a native of Byblos and a christian child, dies in 293 AD, shortly before the executioner could carry out the decapitation sentenced on her for her religion.[18]
Miniature painting of the martyrdom of Ananias and his companions, Menologion of Basil II
Ananias "of Phoenicia" the Presbyter, Peter the prison guard, and seven soldiers, get martyred in the form of drowning after lengthy torture for their Christianity, 295 AD, Phoenicia.[19]
The ecclesiastical administration of Pheonice paralleled the political, but with some differences. The bishop of Tyre emerged as the pre-eminent prelate of Phoenice by the mid-3rd century.[22]
Since the time of Septimius Severus, it had been the practice to assign not more than two legions to each frontier province, and, although in some provinces one legion was sometimes deemed sufficient, the upper limit was not exceeded. This policy appears to have been continued during the third century AD, as seen in the case of Aurelian raising the garrisons of Phoenice to the normal strength of two legions.[23]
Saint Gregory the Miracle-Worker, 14th century icon
In 238 or 239 AD, Beirut was first mentioned in writing as a major center for the study of law in the panegyric of Gregory Thaumaturgus, the bishop of Neo-Caesarea[24][25][26] The 3rd-century emperors Diocletian and Maximian issued constitutions exempting the students of the law school of Beirut from compulsory service in their hometowns.[27][28]
3rd century in Lebanon 
