| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
| Decades: | 220s 230s 240s – 250s – 260s 270s 280s |
| Years: | 249 250 251 – 252 – 253 254 255 |
| 252 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 252 CCLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1005 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5002 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1592–-1591 |
| Bengali calendar | -341 |
| Berber calendar | 1202 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 796 |
| Burmese calendar | -386 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5760–5761 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年十二月初三日 (2888/2948-12-3) — to —
壬申年十一月十四日(2889/2949-11-14) |
| Coptic calendar | -32–-31 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 244–245 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4012–4013 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 308–309 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 174–175 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3353–3354 |
| Holocene calendar | 10252 |
| Iranian calendar | 370 BP – 369 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 381 BH – 380 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2585 |
| Minguo calendar | 1660 before ROC 民前1660年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 795 |
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.