252
This article is about the year 252. For the number, see 252 (number).
| 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 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5002 |
| Bengali calendar | −341 |
| Berber calendar | 1202 |
| Buddhist calendar | 796 |
| Burmese calendar | −386 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5760–5761 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2948 or 2888 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2949 or 2889 |
| Coptic calendar | −32 – −31 |
| Discordian calendar | 1418 |
| 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 |
| Julian calendar | 252 CCLII |
| Korean calendar | 2585 |
| Minguo calendar | 1660 before ROC 民前1660年 |
| Seleucid era | 563/564 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 794–795 |
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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.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Valerian reforms Legio III Augusta to fight the "five peoples", a dangerous coalition of Berber tribes in Africa.
Persia
- Shapur I, king of Persia, puts the revolt in Khorasan (Iran) down and rejoines with his army. He invades Armenia and appoints Artavazd VI as the new Armenian king. Georgia submits peacefully to Shapur I, and is made a special province in the Persian Empire.
Asia
- Sun Liang succeeds Sun Quan as king of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu.
By topic
Religion
- Pope Cornelius is exiled to Centumcellae by emperor Trebonianus Gallus.
Births
- Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (d. 334)
Deaths
- Sun Quan, Chinese warlord and founder of the Kingdom of Wu (b. 182)
- Empress Pan, wife of Sun Quan