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Year 252 (CCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Trebonianus and Volusianus (or, less frequently, year 1005 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 252 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Roman Empire

  • Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I defeats a Roman field army at Barbalissos in Syria (probable date, could have been in 253). The size of the Roman field army is claimed by Persian sources to have been 70,000 men strong, yet this is unlikely.

    • Persia

  • Shapur I, king of Persia, puts the revolt in Khorasan (Iran and Turkmenistan) down and rejoins with his army.
  • He invades Armenia and appoints Artavazd VI as the new Armenian king.
  • Georgia submits peacefully to Shapur I, and is made a special province in the Persian Empire.

    • Asia

  • Sun Liang succeeds Sun Quan as king of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu.

    • Religion

  • Pope Cornelius is exiled to Centumcellae by emperor Trebonianus Gallus.

    • Births

  • Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (d. 334)

    • Deaths

  • Sun Quan, Chinese warlord and founder of the Kingdom of Wu (b. 182)
  • Empress Pan, wife of Sun Quan
  • Tian Yu, general of Cao Wei (b. 171)

    • References

    252 Wikipedia
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