244
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- This article is about the year 244. For other uses, see 244 (number).
| Centuries: | 2nd century · 3rd century · 4th century |
| Decades: | 210s 220s 230s 240s 250s 260s 270s |
| Years: | 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 |
| 244 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 244 CCXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 997 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Chinese calendar | 2940 – 2941 癸亥 – 甲子 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 236 – 237 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4004 – 4005 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 299 – 300 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 166 – 167 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3345 – 3346 |
| Iranian calendar | 378 BP – 377 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 390 BH – 389 BH |
Events
By Place
Roman Empire
- February 11 - Emperor Gordian III is killed by his Praetorian Prefect Philip the Arab after Phillip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.
- Philip the Arab becomes Emperor.
- Rome loses Mesopotamia and Armenia to the Sassanides.
- Aurelian defeats the Franks at Mainz.
- Philip the Arab constucts the city of Shahba, in Syria, the province of his birth.
By Topic
Arts and Sciences
- Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.
Births
- Alexander of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (possible date)
Deaths
- February 11 - Gordian III, Roman emperor
- Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica