253

Year 253 (CCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	220s  230s  240s  – 250s –  260s  270s  280s
Years:	250 251 252 – 253 – 254 255 256

253 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	253 CCLIII
Ab urbe condita	1006
Assyrian calendar	5003
Balinese saka calendar	174–175
Bengali calendar	−340
Berber calendar	1203
Buddhist calendar	797
Burmese calendar	−385
Byzantine calendar	5761–5762
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2949 or 2889     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2950 or 2890
Coptic calendar	−31 – −30
Discordian calendar	1419
Ethiopian calendar	245–246
Hebrew calendar	4013–4014
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	309–310
- Shaka Samvat	174–175
- Kali Yuga	3353–3354
Holocene calendar	10253
Iranian calendar	369 BP – 368 BP
Islamic calendar	380 BH – 379 BH
Javanese calendar	132–133
Julian calendar	253 CCLIII
Korean calendar	2586
Minguo calendar	1659 before ROC 民前1659年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1215
Seleucid era	564/565 AG
Thai solar calendar	795–796
Tibetan calendar	阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 379 or −2 or −774     — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 380 or −1 or −773

Emperor Gallienus

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Period of the Thirty Tyrants in the Roman empire.
• Aemilianus is called "enemy of the State" by the Roman Senate.
• Aemilianus rules for 3 months the Roman Empire. He promises to fight in Thrace and goes to war against Persia. The Senate gives him the rank of Pontifex Maximus.
• Aemilianus is murdered at Spoletium. Publius Valerianus made new emperor by the Rhine legions.
• Valerianus I splits the Roman Empire in two.
• Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I, defeats the Roman army (70,000 men) under Valerianus I at Barbalissos in Syria.

By topic

Religion

• Pope Cornelius is sent into exile.
• June 25 – Pope Lucius I succeeds Pope Cornelius as the 22nd pope.
• Lucius is arrested almost immediately after his election and also exiled.

Births

Deaths

• Pope Cornelius
• Aemilianus, Roman emperor
• Trebonianus Gallus, Roman emperor
• Volusianus, Roman emperor
• Saint Babylas, Patriarch of Antioch
• Fei Yi, general-in-chief of the Shu Kingdom
• Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, nephew of Zhuge Liang, officer of the Wu Kingdom (b. 203)
• Sun He, son of Sun Quan
• Ehe Shaoge, a general of Qiang

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