3rd century

The 3rd century is the period from 201 - 300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

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Overview

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Events

The Baths of Caracalla, in 2003
The Baths of Caracalla, in 2003
  • 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men
  • 212-216: Baths of Caracalla
  • 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east
  • 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire
  • 250-538: Kofun era, the first part of the Yamato period in Japan
  • 258: Valerian's Massacre of Christians
  • 260: Roman Emperor Valerian I is taken captive by Shapur I of Persia
  • 184-280: Period of the Three Kingdoms
  • 280-420: Jin Dynasty (265-420) of China
  • Sarnath becomes a center of Buddhist arts in India
  • Diffusion of maize as a food crop from Mexico into North America begins
  • The Kingdom of Funan reaches its zenith under the rule of Fan Shih-man
  • The Goths move from Gothiscandza to Ukraine and shape the Chernyakhov culture
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Significant persons

  • Clement of Alexandria
  • Diocletian, Roman emperor
  • Diophantus of Alexandria, wrote Arithmetica
  • Hippolytus, considered first Antipope
  • Liu Hui, Chinese mathematician
  • Mani (prophet), founder of Manichaeism
  • Origen
  • Pappus of Alexandria, Greek mathematician
  • Plotinus, founder of Neoplatonism
  • Tertullian, sometimes called father of Latin church
  • Wang Pi, Taoist
  • M. Sattonius Iucundus, restorer of the Thermae in Heerlen
  • Zhuge Liang, known as the greatest strategist during the period of the Three Kingdoms
  • Liu Bei, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu
  • Cao Cao, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Wei
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Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • A primitive form of glasses were developed for a nearsighted princess in Syria.
  • Compass invented in China
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Decades and years

Millennium Century
4th BC: 40th BC 39th BC 38th BC 37th BC 36th BC 35th BC 34th BC 33rd BC 32nd BC 31st BC
3rd BC: 30th BC 29th BC 28th BC 27th BC 26th BC 25th BC 24th BC 23rd BC 22nd BC 21st BC
2nd BC: 20th BC 19th BC 18th BC 17th BC 16th BC 15th BC 14th BC 13th BC 12th BC 11th BC
1st BC: 10th BC 9th BC 8th BC 7th BC 6th BC 5th BC 4th BC 3rd BC 2nd BC 1st BC
1st:   1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th 10th
2nd: 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
3rd: 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th
4th: 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th
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