243

Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Arrianus and Papus (or, less frequently, year 996 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 243 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.

This article is about the year 243. For the number, see 243 (number).

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

243 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	243 CCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	996
Assyrian calendar	4993
Balinese saka calendar	164–165
Bengali calendar	−350
Berber calendar	1193
Buddhist calendar	787
Burmese calendar	−395
Byzantine calendar	5751–5752
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2939 or 2879     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2940 or 2880
Coptic calendar	−41 – −40
Discordian calendar	1409
Ethiopian calendar	235–236
Hebrew calendar	4003–4004
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	299–300
- Shaka Samvat	164–165
- Kali Yuga	3343–3344
Holocene calendar	10243
Iranian calendar	379 BP – 378 BP
Islamic calendar	391 BH – 390 BH
Javanese calendar	121–122
Julian calendar	243 CCXLIII
Korean calendar	2576
Minguo calendar	1669 before ROC 民前1669年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1225
Seleucid era	554/555 AG
Thai solar calendar	785–786
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 369 or −12 or −784     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 370 or −11 or −783

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena (Syria); King Shapur I is forced to flee to the Euphrates.
• Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I retreats to Persia, giving up all the territories he conquered.
• Emperor Gordian III appoints Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect and proceeds with his campaign in Mesopotamia.
• Cohors I Ubiorum, the garrison at castra Capidava in Scythia Minor, is replaced by Cohors I Germanorum civium romanorum until the end of the 3rd century AD.

Southeast Asia

• Fan Chan of Funan sends a tribute mission to China.

Births

• Sun Liang, Chinese emperor of the Eastern Wu state (d. 260)

Deaths

• Gu Yong, Chinese official and scholar of the Eastern Wu state (b. 168)
• Timesitheus, advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)

References