WHAT HAPPENED IN 3. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the 3. century

A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. (23. April 215. BC)

Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope. (12. May 254)

Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome. (16. May 218)

Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. (21. May 293)

First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. (25. May 240. BC)

Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia. (8. June 218)

The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. (21. June 217. BC)

Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. (22. June 217. BC)

Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae. (25. June 253)

Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. (26. June 221)

Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. (29. June 226)

Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. (21. July 230)

Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler. (21. July 285)

Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. (25. July 285)

The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor. (29. July 238)

Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. (2. August 216. BC)

The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War (19. August 295. BC)

In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor. (25. September 275)

Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia. (28. September 235)

Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I. (14. October 222)