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Roman Empire

• Period of the Thirty Tyrants
  Thirty Tyrants (Roman)
  
  The Thirty Tyrants were a series of thirty rulers that appear in the Historia Augusta as having ostensibly been pretenders to the throne of the Roman Empire during the reign of the emperor Gallienus....
   in the Roman empire. For the most part, generals in the border regions are proclaimed emperor by their armies in order to stop the (primarily) Germanic
  Germanic peoples
  
  File:Germanische-ratsversammlung 1-1250x715.jpgThe Germanic peoples are a historical Ethnolinguistics group, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Indo-European languages Germanic languages which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age....
   invaders.
• Emperor Trebonianus Gallus
  Trebonianus Gallus
  
  Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus , was Roman Emperor from 251 to 253, in a joint rule with his son Volusianus.Gallus was born in Italy, in a family with respected ancestry of Etruscan Roman senate background....
   is slain by his own troops in Moesia
  Moesia
  
  Moesia was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River....
  .
• Aemilianus
  Aemilianus
  
  Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus , commonly known in English as Aemilian, was Roman Emperor for about three months in 253.Commander of the Moesian troops, he obtained an important victory against the invading Goths and was, for this reason, acclaimed emperor by his army....
   becomes Emperor.
• Valerian I becomes Emperor. He appoints his son Gallienus
  Gallienus
  
  Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus ruled the Roman Empire as co-emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260, and then as the sole Roman Emperor from 260 to 268....
   as his junior colleague.
• In violation of a treaty signed with Rome, the Goths
  Goths
  
  The Goths were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, invasion the Roman Empire and later adopted Arian Christianity. In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy....
   invade Asia Minor.

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Religion

• Pope Cornelius
  Pope Cornelius
  
  Pope Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March, 251 to his martyrdom in June 253....
   is sent into exile.
• June 25 — Pope Lucius I
  Pope Lucius I
  
  Pope Saint Lucius I was Pope from June 25, 253 to March 5, 254.St. Lucius was born in Rome at an unknown date, nothing is known about his family except his father's name, Porphyrianus....
   succeeds Pope Cornelius
  Pope Cornelius
  
  Pope Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March, 251 to his martyrdom in June 253....
   as the 22nd pope
  Pope
  
  The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
  .
• Lucius is arrested almost immediately following his election and also exiled.

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• Pope Cornelius
  Pope Cornelius
  
  Pope Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March, 251 to his martyrdom in June 253....
  
• Aemilianus
  Aemilianus
  
  Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus , commonly known in English as Aemilian, was Roman Emperor for about three months in 253.Commander of the Moesian troops, he obtained an important victory against the invading Goths and was, for this reason, acclaimed emperor by his army....
  , Roman emperor
• Trebonianus Gallus
  Trebonianus Gallus
  
  Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus , was Roman Emperor from 251 to 253, in a joint rule with his son Volusianus.Gallus was born in Italy, in a family with respected ancestry of Etruscan Roman senate background....
  , Roman emperor
• Saint Babylas
  Saint Babylas
  
  Saint Babylas . A patriarch of Antioch , who died in prison during the Decius persecution. He asked to be buried in his chains. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine rite his feast day is September 4, in the Roman Catholic, January 24....
  , Patriarch of Antioch
  List of Patriarchs of Antioch
  
  The Patriarch of Antioch is one of the original patriarchs of Early Christianity, who presided over the bishops of Syria, Palestine, Armenia and Mesopotamia....
  
• Fei Yi
  Fei Yi
  
  Fei Yi , courtesy name Wenwei , was an official of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era of China. He served as regent after Jiang Wan....
  , general-in-chief of the Shu Kingdom
• Zhuge Ke
  Zhuge Ke
  
  Zhuge Ke , courtesy name Yuanxun , was an officer for Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms era of China. He was the son of the Wu minister, Zhuge Jin, whose younger brother was the great Shu Han strategist, Zhuge Liang....
  , son of Zhuge Jin
  Zhuge Jin
  
  Zhug? Jin , courtesy name Ziyu , was a minister for the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms era of China. He was the elder brother of the famous Shu Han strategist, Zhuge Liang....
  , officer of the Wu Kingdom
• Sun He
  Sun He
  
  Sun He , courtesy name Zixiao , formally Emperor Wen was a son and one-time crown prince of Eastern Wu's founding emperor Sun Quan during the Three Kingdoms period....
  , son of Sun Quan
  Sun Quan
  
  Sun Quan , son of Sun Jian, courtesy name Zh?ngm?u , formally Emperor Da of Wu was the founder of Eastern Wu, during the Three Kingdoms period, in China....
  
• Ehe Shaoge
  Ehe Shaoge
  
  Ehe Shaoge was a Qiang people general under King Midang. He was sent to attack Nan An, but was captured by Guo Huai. In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he committed suicide....
  , a general of Qiang