243

Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	210s  220s  230s  – 240s –  250s  260s  270s
Years:	240 241 242 – 243 – 244 245 246

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena (Syria). King Shapur I must run away to the Euphrates.
• Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I goes back to Persia.
• Emperor Gordian III picks Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect.

Births

• Sun Liang, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (d. 260)

Deaths

• Gu Yong, minister of Wu (b. 168)
• Kan Ze, advisor of Wu
• Timesitheus, advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)