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This article is about the year 244. For the number (and other uses), see 244 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	210s 220s 230s – 240s – 250s 260s 270s
Years:	241 242 243 – 244 – 245 246 247

244 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

244 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	244 CCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	997
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4994
Bahá'í calendar	-1600–-1599
Bengali calendar	-349
Berber calendar	1194
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	788
Burmese calendar	-394
Byzantine calendar	5752–5753
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十二月初四日 (2880/2940-12-4) — to — 甲子年十一月十五日 (2881/2941-11-15)
Coptic calendar	-40–-39
Ethiopian calendar	236–237
Hebrew calendar	4004–4005
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	300–301
- Shaka Samvat	166–167
- Kali Yuga	3345–3346
Holocene calendar	10244
Iranian calendar	378 BP – 377 BP
Islamic calendar	390 BH – 389 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2577
Minguo calendar	1668 before ROC 民前1668年
Thai solar calendar	787

Year 244 (CCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Armenius and Aemilianus (or, less frequently, year 997 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 244 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 Misiche: King Shapur I delivers a counter-attack near Fallujah (Iraq) and defeats the Roman army upstream of the Euphrates.
February 11 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
Philip the Arab declares himself co-emperor and makes a disgraceful peace with the Persians. He evacuates Syria and gives Shapur I 500,000 gold pieces.
Philip the Arab constructs the city of Shahba (Syria), the province of his birth. The Persians occupied Armenia.
Philip the Arab is recognized by the Roman Senate as new Roman Emperor and gives his brother Priscus supreme power (rector Orientis) in the Eastern provinces.
Philippus I is proclaimed Augustus, he nominates his son Philippus, age 6, with the title of Caesar and heir to the throne.

Asia

Guanqiu Jian of Cao Wei invades Goguryeo, devastating their capital.

By topic

Arts and sciences

Plotinus, Greek philosopher, escapes the bloodshed that accompanies the murder of Gordianus III and makes his way to Antioch. Back to Rome he founds his Neoplatonist school and attracts students like Porphyry, Castricius Firmus and Eustochius of Alexandria.
244–249 – Philip the Arab, is made. It is now kept at Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome.
244–245 – House-synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, is built. It is reconstructed in the National Museum of Damascus (Syria).

Commerce

The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 0.5 percent under emperor Philippus I, down from 28 percent under Gordian III.

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