This article is about the year 252. For the number, see 252 (number).
252 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 252
CCLII
Ab urbe condita 1005
Assyrian calendar 5002
Balinese saka calendar 173–174
Bengali calendar −342 – −341
Berber calendar 1202
Buddhist calendar 796
Burmese calendar −386
Byzantine calendar 5760–5761
Chinese calendar 辛未年 (Metal Goat)
2949 or 2742
    — to —
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
2950 or 2743
Coptic calendar −32 – −31
Discordian calendar 1418
Ethiopian calendar 244–245
Hebrew calendar 4012–4013
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 308–309
 - Shaka Samvat 173–174
 - Kali Yuga 3352–3353
Holocene calendar 10252
Iranian calendar 370 BP – 369 BP
Islamic calendar 381 BH – 380 BH
Javanese calendar 130–132
Julian calendar 252
CCLII
Korean calendar 2585
Minguo calendar 1660 before ROC
民前1660年
Nanakshahi calendar −1216
Seleucid era 563/564 AG
Thai solar calendar 794–795
Tibetan calendar ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Iron-Sheep)
378 or −3 or −775
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Water-Monkey)
379 or −2 or −774

Year 252 (CCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

  • Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I defeats the Roman army (some 70,000 men) at Barbalissos in Syria (approximate date).[1]

Persia

  • Shapur I puts down the revolt in Khorasan (Iran and Turkmenistan), and rejoins his army.
  • Shapur I invades Armenia, and appoints Artavazd VI as the new Armenian king.
  • Georgia submits peacefully to Shapur I, and becomes a vassal of the Sassanid Empire.

Asia

  • Sun Liang succeeds his father Sun Quan, as emperor of the Chinese state of Eastern Wu.

By topic

Religion

  • Pope Cornelius is exiled to Centumcellae, by Emperor Trebonianus Gallus.


Births

  • Eusignius of Antioch, Roman general and martyr (d. 362)
  • Wang Jun (or Pengzu), Chinese general and warlord (d. 314)
  • Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (d. 334)

Deaths

  • May 21 – Sun Quan, founder of the Eastern Wu state (b. 182)
  • Pan (or Pan Shu), Chinese empress of the Eastern Wu state
  • Tian Yu (or Guorang), Chinese general and politician (b. 171)
  • Tiridates II (or Khosrov), Roman client king of Armenia

References

  1. ^ Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen; Bowman, Alan; Garnsey, Peter; Cameron, Averil (1970). The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12, The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337. Cambridge University Press. p. 469. ISBN 978-0-521-30199-2.