Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Events and trends
 609 BC—The Babylonians defeat the Assyrian army of Ashur-uballit II and gain Harran. Ashur-uballit, the last Assyrian king, disappears from history.
 609 BC—King Josiah of Judah dies in the Battle of Megiddo against Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt, who is on his way north to aid the Assyrian state of Ashur-uballit II. Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah.  He is quickly deposed by Necho, who puts Jehoahaz's brother Jehoiakim in his place.
 607 BC—Death of Zhou Kuang Wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
 606 BC—Zhou Ding Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty.
 605 BC—Battle of Carchemish: Crown Prince Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon defeats the army of Necho II of Egypt, securing the Babylonian conquest of Assyria. The Babylonians pursue through Syria and Palestine.
 605 BC—Nebuchadnezzar II succeeds his father Nabopolassar as King of Babylon. 
 601 BC—Foundation of Perinthus by settlers from Samos.
600 BC— Foundation of Marseille by Focei winners in a naval clash on Carthaginians; It was the beginning of Greek-punic Wars. 
 600 BC—Radiocarbon dating for first circular inhabitation enclosure at Emain Macha.
 600 BC—Creation of Armenia.
 600 BC—Foundation of Capua.
 600 BC—Foundation of Milan by Celts (approximate date).
 600 BC—Smyrna sacked and destroyed.
 600 BC—Nebuchadnezzar builds the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. 
 c. 600 BC—Orientalizing period of vases ends in Ancient Greece.
 c. 600 BC—Archaic period of sculpture starts in Ancient Greece.
 c. 600 BC—Pitcher (container) (olpe), from Corinth, is made. It is now at The British Museum, London.
 c. 600 BC—Kouros is made. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
 c. 600 BC–580 BC—Temple of Artemis, Korkyra (Corfu) is built.
 c. 600 BC—Pompeii is founded.
 c. 600 BC—Zarathustra's religion becomes popular in Persia.
c. 600 BC—Beginning of the construction of the largest Mound at Cahokia, near East St. Louis, Illinois. Construction continues until AD 200.
 c. 600 BC—The Etruscans take the settlement of Rome, making it into a prosperous trading centre.
 c. 600 BC—Athens had severe economic problems.
 c. 600 BC—Doric order and Ionic order are well developed.
 c. 600 BC - 500 BC - Calendrical system appears in areas with strong Olmec influence in Mesoamerica.
Significant people
605 BC—Death of Nabopolassar, first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
c. 600 BC—Birth of King Cambyses I of Anshan, head of the Achaemenid dynasty.
c. 600 BC—Thales, Greek philosopher.
Events and trends
 589 BC—Apries succeeds Psamtik II as king of Egypt.
 588 BC—Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon begins siege of Jerusalem; the opera Nabucco sets the date at 587 BC.
 587 BC—Jerusalem falls to the Babylonians, ending the Kingdom of Judah. The conquerors destroy the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem and exile some of the land's inhabitants.
 586 BC—Death of Zhou ding wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
 28 May 585 BC—A solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes II is battling Cyaxares. This leads to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
 585 BC—Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, defeats the Sabines, takes the town of Collatia, and celebrates a triumph for his victories on 13th September.
 585/584 BC—Astyages succeeds Cyaxares as King of the Medes.
 585 BC—Zhou jian wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
 585 BC—Fall of the Kingdom of Urartu following a Median invasion. (The Scythians ruined the Kingdom of Urartu.)
582 BC—Military battle of the major Classical antiquity powers Egypt and Babylon.
 582 BC—Pythian Games reorganised at Delphi. (This is the traditional date.)
 581 BC—Isthmian Games founded at Corinth.
 580 BC—Cambyses I succeeds Cyrus I as king of Anshan and head of the Achaemenid dynasty. (approximate date)
 c. 580 BC—Gorgon Medusa, detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made. It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
c. 580 BC—Standing Youth (Kouros) is made. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Significant people
 Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon
 585 BC—Birth of Anaximenes of Miletus, Greek philosopher (d. 525 BC)
 585 BC—Death of Emperor Jimmu of Japan
 582 BC—Birth of Pythagoras in Samos, Greek philosopher and mathematician (d. 496 BC)
 580 BC—Death of Cyrus I of Anshan (approximate date)
Year 200 (CC) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

World 
 Human population reaches about 257 million.

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Septimius Severus visits Syria, Palestine and Arabia.
 Palestine, benefiting from the kind policies of Severus, sees a big economic return.
 The province of Numidia is taken from the African proconsul and made an Imperial province.

India 
 Rudrasena I, Saka ruler of the Western Satrap dynasty, becomes king of Malwa in ancient India.

Asia 
 Chinese warlord Cao Cao defeats Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu.
 In Japan, Himiko, whose capital is in Yamatai, extends her authority over a number of clans.
 Empress Jingu sends a Japanese fleet to invade Korea. The Koreans surrender at the sight of the huge multi-oared ships and offer tribute.

America 
 The Classic Age of Maya civilization begins (around this year).
 The Paracas culture in the Andes comes to an end (around this year).

By topic
By topic

Art 
 Septimius Severus, Julia Domna and their children, Publius Septimius Geta and Caracalla, from Fayum, Egypt, is made. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.

Religion 
 Jewish Eretz Yisraeli scholar Judah ha-Nasi puts together tracts of the Mishnah.  This begins the making of Talmudic law.
 Clement of Alexandria says to not use musical instruments to support human voices in Christian music.
 Brahmanism changes into Hinduism (approximate date).

Births 
 Fei Yi, an official of Shu (approximate date) (d. 253)
 Ma Jun (d. 265)
 Wang Ling, general of Wei (d. 250)
 Sun Shao, general of Wu (d. 242)
 Zhou Fang, general of Wu (d. 240)
 Diophantus, Greek mathematician
 Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman Emperor (d. 276)
 Valerian I, Roman Emperor
Deaths 
 Chunyu Qiong (executed by Yuan Shao)
 Dong Cheng (executed by Cao Cao)
 Gan Ji, Taoist priest
 Han Juzi, general under Yuan Shao
 Ji Ping (executed by Cao Cao)
 Ju Shou (officer of Yuan Shao)
 Lü Weihuang
 Mi Heng, renowned scholar and friend of Kong Rong (executed by Huang Zu) (b. 173)
 Sui Yuanjin
 Sun Ce, 25, elder brother of the founder of Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan (b. 175)
 Tian Feng (executed by Yuan Shao)
 Wen Chou, general under Yuan Shao
 Xu Gong
 Yan Liang, general under Yuan Shao
 Zheng Xuan (b. 127)

References
Year 496 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 
 Hipparchos, son of Charmos wins the archonship of Athens.

Roman Republic 
 The former Etruscan King of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, who was exiled by the Romans in 508 BC, and his ally Lars Porsena, the King of Clusium, are defeated by the new Roman Republic army in the Battle of Lake Regillus, near Frascati. This battle begins Roman supremacy over the Latins.
 Carthage and Rome make a treaty.

China 
 King Goujian of Yue defeats King Fuchai of Wu.  This made a short peace in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Births 

 Sophocles, Athenian dramatist and statesman (d. 406 BC)

Deaths 

 Sun Tzu, military philosopher and author of The Art of War (b. 544 BC)
 King Helü of Wu, king of the Chinese State of Wu
 Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the exiled last King of Rome
Year 253 (CCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Period of the Thirty Tyrants in the Roman empire. 
 Aemilianus is called "enemy of the State" by the Roman Senate. 
 Aemilianus rules for 3 months the Roman Empire.  He promises to fight in Thrace and goes to war against Persia. The Senate gives him the rank of Pontifex Maximus. 
 Aemilianus is murdered at Spoletium. Publius Valerianus made new emperor by the Rhine legions. 
 Valerianus I splits the Roman Empire in two.
 Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I, defeats the Roman army (70,000 men) under Valerianus I at Barbalissos in Syria.

By topic

Religion 
 Pope Cornelius is sent into exile.
 June 25 – Pope Lucius I succeeds Pope Cornelius as the 22nd pope.
 Lucius is arrested almost immediately after his election and also exiled.

Births
Births

Deaths 
 Pope Cornelius
 Aemilianus, Roman emperor
 Trebonianus Gallus, Roman emperor
 Volusianus, Roman emperor
 Saint Babylas, Patriarch of Antioch
 Fei Yi, general-in-chief of the Shu Kingdom
 Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, nephew of Zhuge Liang, officer of the Wu Kingdom (b. 203) 
 Sun He, son of Sun Quan
 Ehe Shaoge, a general of Qiang

References 

253
Viktor Troicki (pronounced , , , ; born 10 February 1986 in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Viktor became pro in 2006. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia. Viktor play tennis right hand, two hand backhand.

Sources

Other websites

 
 
 
 Troicki`s official website 

1986 births
Living people
Male tennis players
Serbian tennis players
Sportspeople from Belgrade
Year 242 (CCXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Gordian III begins fighting against King Shapur I. The Greek philosopher Plotinus joins him and hopes to get first-hand knowledge of Persian and Indian philosophies. 
 Gordian III leaves the Cimmerian cities in the Bosphorus (Crimea), as the land is now controlled by the Goths.

Persia 
 Shapur I makes an attack on Antioch to drive out the Romans.

By topic

Religion 
 Patriarch Titus succeeds Patriarch Eugenius I as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births 
 Cao Mao, fourth emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 260)
 Saloninus, Roman Emperor (d. 260)
 Sun Hao, last emperor of the Kingdom of Wu (d. 284)

Deaths 
 Man Chong, adviser to the Kingdom of Wei
 Sun Shao, general of the Wu Kingdom (b. 188)

240s
Janko Tipsarević (born June 22, 1984) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Janko became pro in 2002. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia. Janko plays tennis right handed. He has a two-handed backhand.

Sources
 ATP Profile

Other websites

 Tipsarevic`s official website

1984 births
Living people
Male tennis players
Serbian tennis players
Sportspeople from Belgrade
Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing is a book of essays about writing. The author is Joseph Epstein. 

Kirkus Reviews and Los Angeles Times wrote about the book. The Chicago Tribune also had good things to say about the book. It said that Epstein's essays of literary criticism are his most interesting works and that they were definitely worth preserving together in a collection.

References

American essays
1985 books
Stranger with My Face is a fiction book. The author is Lois Duncan. It won an award called ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

Other websites

American young adult novels
Horror novels
1981 books
The Delhi Daredevils are a team in the Indian Premier League. In 2012 they qualified for the playoffs.

References

Cricket clubs
Indian Premier League
New Delhi
Year 406 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 
 Callicratidas becomes the navarch of the Spartan fleet, replacing Lysander. 
 Athens wins the Battle of Arginusae.
 Returning to Athens after the battle, Theramenes leads Athenian anger against the eight generals who were in the battle. They did not get survivors from the broken ships after the battle. The Athenian generals are put to death.
 Sparta asks for peace. Cleophon says no.

Roman Republic 
 The Roman forces begin a decade-long siege against Veii.

Carthage 
 The Carthaginians again invade Sicily and attack Agrigentum. Plague breaks out in their camp and Hannibal Mago dies.

Deaths 

 Euripides, Athenian playwright (b. c. 480 BC)
 Hannibal Mago, Carthaginian general
 Sophocles, Athenian dramatist and politician (b. c. 495 BC)

406 BC
Year 240 (CCXL) was a (leap year starting on Wednesday) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 The Roman Empire is threatened on several fronts at the same time.  Africa revolts and tribes in northwest Germania, under the name of the Franks, are raiding the Rhine frontier.

Asia 
 Maharaja Sri-Gupta becomes Emperor of Gupta.
 Ardashir I, Sassanid king of Persia, destroys Hatra.
 Shapur I becomes co-emperor with his father Ardashir I
 The Kushan Empire falls.

By topic

Religion 
 At the court of Ardashir I, Mani, a young mystic of Ctesiphon, calls himself a prophet and preaches his doctrine, Manichaeism, throughout the Persian Empire.

Births 
 Lactantius, Christian writer (d. 320) (approximate date)
 Sporus of Nicaea,  Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)
 Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (d. 274)
Deaths 
 Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher (approximate date)
 Huang Quan, general of the Kingdom of Shu
 King Midang, king of the Qiang tribe
 Zhou Fang, general of the Kingdom of Wu

240s
Year 276 (CCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Tacitus doubled the silver content of the Roman currency.
 Marcus Annius Florianus defeats the Goths and Alans who have invaded Asia Minor. Tacitus dies of illness or is murdered at Tyana in Cappadocia.
 Florianus becomes Roman Emperor. He stops his battles against the Heruli and marches from the Bosporus.  He has support from the Roman legions in Britain, Gaul, Spain and Italy.  No one is the winner in a battle with Marcus Aurelius Probus in Cilicia.
 Florianus keeps power for some weeks.  Then he is assassinated by his own troops near Tarsus (Turkey). Probus, age 44, is the new Emperor of Rome.
 Probus  picks Marcus Aurelius Carus to Prefect of the Praetorian Guard.

Asia 
 King Bahram I of Persia dies after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Bahram II.
 Reign of Mahasena in Ceylon. He tries to introduce Mahayana Buddhism to the country.

By topic
By topic

Religion 
 Mani, a sage from Persia, dies at Gundeshapur.

Births 
 Gregory the Elder, bishop of Nazianzus (approximate date)
 Guo Pu, Chinese writer (d. 324)
 Jin Yuandi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 323)
 Wang Dao, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (d. 339)

Deaths 
 Bahram I, king of Persia
 Mani, prophet and founder of Manichaeism
 Marcus Annius Florianus, Roman Emperor
 Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman Emperor

270s
Year 173 (CLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Gnaeus Claudius Severus and Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus become Roman Consuls. 
 June 11 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius begins a battle against the Quadi.
 Avidius Cassius, the governor of Syria, stops shepherds known as the boukoloi.

Births 
 Maximinus Thrax, Roman emperor  (d. 238)
 Mi Heng  (d. 200)
 Sun Ben, nephew of Sun Jian  (d. 209)
 Yuan Tan, eldest son of Yuan Shao  (d. 205)

Deaths
Year 175 (CLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Marcus Aurelius stops a revolt of Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria.
 Avidius Cassius is assassinated by Roman officers. 
 Commodus is named Caesar.

Asia 
 Confucian scholars try to stay in the royal court of China.  They are massacred by the eunuchs.

By topic

Religion 
 Pope Eleuterus succeeds Pope Soter as the thirteenth pope (approximate date).

Births 
 Cao Ang, eldest son of Cao Cao (d. 197)
 Gan Ning, general of Wu (d. 218)
 Sun Ce, elder brother of founder of the Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan (d. 200)
 Wei Yan, general of Shu (d. 234)
 Yang Xiu (d. 219)
 Zhou Yu, militarist and strategist of the Three Kingdoms of China (d. 210)
 Ma Chao, son of Ma Teng, cousin of Ma Dai, brother of Ma Tie and Ma Xie, general and Tiger general of Shu for Liu Bei. (d. 222)

Deaths 
 July – Avidius Cassius, Roman Emperor (usurper)
 Concordius of Spoleto, Christian martyr
 Faustina the Younger, Roman empress
Year 127 (CXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Hadrian returns to Rome after a seven-year trip to the Roman provinces. 
 Hadrian decides that Christians will not be put to death without a trial.

India 
 Kanishka I starts to rule in Kushan Empire (approximate date).

By topic

Religion 
 The philosopher Carpocrates says ownership of private property is un-Christian.

Births 
 Zheng Xuan, Chinese philosopher (d. 200)

Deaths 
 Plutarch, Greek historian
Events and trends 
 546 BC—Croesus, Lydian king, is defeated by Cyrus of Persia near the River Halys.
 546 BC—Cyrus of Persia completes his conquest of Lydia, and makes Pasargadae his capital.
 546 BC—Cyrus makes a garrison in Sardis.  He adds the Greek cities of Ionia in Asia Minor into Persian Empire. He gains the important ports that look out to the Mediterranean world.
 546 BC—Pisistratus takes power in Athens from the aristocratic party.
 546 BC—The architect Eupalinos of Megara built aqueducts that supply water to Athens.
 546 BC—The peace conference between the kingdoms in China. A treaty between Jin, Chu and some other kingdoms was signed.
 546 BC—A coup d'état in Qi kingdom.
 544 BC—People of Teos move to Abdera, Thrace to escape Persia.
 544 BC—King Jing becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
 543 BC—North Indian Prince Vijaya invades Ceylon.  He makes a Sri Lankan dynasty.
 543 BC—Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, purifies the island of Delos (approximate date).
543 BC—Guided by the Chinese statesman Zi Chan, the State of Zheng starts a formal code of law.
 540 BC—Cyrus attacks Babylonia.
 540 BC—Greek city of Elea of southern Italy founded (approximate date).
 540 BC—Persians conquer Lycian city of Xanthos now in southern Turkey (approximate date).
 c. 540 BC—Amasis Painter makes Dionysos with maenads, black-figure decoration on an amphora. It is now at Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
 c. 540 BC—Exekias makes The Suicide of Ajax, black-figure decoration on a amphora. It is now at Chateau-Musee, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
Significant people
 549 BC—Birth of Darius I
 547 BC—Death of Croesus
 546 BC—Death of Anaximander, Greek philosopher (approximate date)
 545 BC—Death of Zhou ling wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China
 544 BC—Birth of Sun Tzu
 543 BC—Death of Gautama Buddha (traditional in Thailand and elsewhere—basis of the Thai solar calendar)
 543 BC—Death of Thales, Greek philosopher
 540 BC—Amyntas I becomes king of Macedonia (approximate date)
 Amasis Painter, Greek painter
 Exekias, Greek painter
Year 203 (CCIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Septimius Severus rebuilds Byzantium.
 Gaius Fulvius Plautianus and Publius Septimius Geta become Roman Consuls.
 An arch dedicated to Severus is put up near the Forum.
 The Portico of Octavia is rebuilt.

Asia 
 Reign in India of Vijaya, Satavahana king of the Andhra.
 The Andhra empire is being broken apart into smaller and smaller independent sections.

By topic

Religion 
 Origen of Alexandria replaces Clement as the head of the Christian school in Alexandria.

Births 
 November – Mahavatar Babaji in Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, India
 Probable birth of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus (d. 222)
 Cao Rui, emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (approximate date) (d. 239)
 Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, officer of the Wu Kingdom (d. 253)
Deaths 
 Perpetua, Christian saint (martyred)
 Felicitas, Christian saint (martyred)
 Ling Cao, general under Sun Ce and father of Ling Tong (killed by pirate Gan Ning)
 Wu Jing
Euclid's lemma, also called Euclid's division lemma or Euclid's first theorem, is an important lemma. It was made by the mathematician Euclid.

Formula ( a = bq +r ) 
He basically proposed that for any two integers (let us call them 'a' and 'b') there exists 2 unique integers (Let us call them ' q ' and ' r ') that satisfies the equation, a = qb + r, where r<a.

In the equation, the variable 'b' is dividing the variable 'a'. This makes 'b' the divisor and 'a' as the dividend
'q' is the quotient and 'r' is the remainder

The equation thus means that a dividend is equal to its divisor multiplied with its quotient and added with its remainder.

Number theory
Thiruvalluvar was a Tamil poet and philosopher who wrote the  classic of couplets  of  Tamil, Thirukkural.

Memorials 
 A temple-like memorial to Thiruvalluvar, Valluvar Kottam, was built in Chennai in 1976.
 There is a 133-foot tall statue of Thiruvalluvar erected at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent Kanyakumari where the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean converge, the 133 feet denote Tirukkuṛaḷ's 133 Chapters or athikarams and the show of three fingers denote the three themes Aram, Porul, and Inbam, i.e. the sections on Morals, Wealth and Love.
 There is also a statue of Thiruvalluvar outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in Russell Square, London.

References

Other websites 
 Thirukkural Oli Pathipu: Thirukkural Audio book
 Dialogue and History Constructing South India,1795–1895, Eugene F.Irschick,UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
  Page 70
 Thirukural – Another site which is categorized by chapters
Tamil people
Philosophers
Indian poets
Ancient writers
People from Chennai
5th-century deaths
4th-century births
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families known as fruit flies. The other family is the Drosophilidae. 

There are nearly 5,000 species of tephritid fruit fly in almost 500 genera of the Tephritidae. Description and genetic analyses are constantly changing the taxonomy of this family. To distinguish them from the Drosophilidae, the Tephritidae are sometimes called 'peacock flies'.

References 

Flies
This is a family tree of the Emperors of Japan (tenno) from Jimmu to the present day. 

The legendary genealogy of the emperors includes Shinto deities.

The traditional order of succession begins with Emperor Jimmu.

In the graphic chart, the names of Jimmu and his successors are highlighted in yellow.  The ordinal numbers of the Japanese monarchs are in red; and these are also highlighted in yellow.

The pretenders of the Nanboku-chō period are highlighted in beige.

Chart

Related pages 
 Succession to the Japanese throne
 List of emperors of Japan

Notelist

References 
General

Specific

Other websites
 Imperial Household Agency (Kunaicho), Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan

Japanese
Lists of Japanese people
A magnetic monopole is a hypothetical particle in particle physics that is a magnet with only one magnetic pole (a north pole without a south pole or the other way around). Scientists are interested in this, as they are predicted in several particle theories, such as grand unified and superstring. Magnetism in normal bar magnets and electromagnets does not come from magnetic monopoles. There is not enough evidence to even be sure that magnetic monopoles exist in this universe.

References 

Subatomic particles
Franklin Roy Bruno MBE (born 16 November 1961) is a British boxer-turned actor. His parents were from the Caribbean. He was born in Hammersmith, west London and grew up in Wandsworth, south London. He won the WBC heavyweight championship in 1995.

Bruno has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

References

Other websites 
Official website

1961 births
Living people
Actors from London
Black British actors
Black British sportspeople
British boxers
English movie actors
English television actors
People from Hammersmith
People from Wandsworth
People with bipolar disorder
Sportspeople from London
From the description in WP Commons:
"Trumpler 16 is an open cluster that contains the massive luminous blue variable Eta Carinae, one of the brightest stars in the galaxy. It is possibly as much as 120 times the mass of the Sun, and emits the light of 4,000,000 Suns. Eta Carinae is nearing the end of its life, and is surrounded by a huge nebula, cast off by numerous eruptions of the star over the last several centuries. It is expected to explode into a supernova at any time. Trumpler 14 (annotated) contains the huge double star HD 93129 A/B. The young O3 class star HD 93129 A is one of the brightest stars in the galaxy that is still on the main sequence, and with a luminosity equivalent to 3,000,000 Suns. It is very nearly as bright as Eta Carinae, but this is not obvious in the photo due to obscuring nebulosities".

References 

Nebulae
"" is a famous Naples song written in 1898. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua.

It has been performed and covered by many artists as Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Mario Lanza and The Three Tenors. It has also been performed by rock/pop artists such as Dalida, Anna Oxa, Bryan Adams, Me First, SF9, Vitas Al Bano, Elvis Presley ("It's Now or Never"). Luciano Pavarotti won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for his rendition of "’O Sole Mio."

Lyrics 

1890s songs
Gian Carlo Menotti (, ; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship.

He is well-known for his 1951 one-act opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors. It was commissioned by NBC for broadcast on television. Menotti wrote the music and the words.

20th-century Italian composers
1911 births
2007 deaths
20th-century American composers
Year 260 (CCLX) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Battle of Edessa: Emperor Valerian is defeated by the Persians.
 Valerianus I has a meeting with Shapur to talk about peace. The truce is betrayed and he is taken prisoner for the rest of his life.
 Shapur I sends Valerian to Bishapur. The Roman army builds the Band-e Kaisar (Bridge of Valerian).
 Gallienus becomes the new emperor of Rome.
 Gallienus leaves the fortifications in the Black Forest area because of invading Alamanni.              
 Gallienus lives at Mediolanum (modern Milan).
 Postumus, Roman usurper, forms the Gallic Empire.
 Saloninus, son of Gallienus, is made Augustus by his troops. 
 Postumus kills Saloninus. He is made emperor.
 Postumus wins over all the Roman provinces west of the Alps, including Gaul, Britain and Hispania.       
 The Roman fort  of Wiesbaden (Germany) is captured by the Alamanni.
 The Franks take control over the Scheldt estuary (approximate date).
Asia 
 Persian king Shapur I destroys Caesarea Mazaca in Asia Minor.
 Cao Huan succeeds Cao Mao as ruler of the Chinese Kingdom of Wei.
 Syria, Egypt and Palestine break off from the Roman Empire to form the Persian-supported Palmyrene Empire.

By topic

Arts and sciences 
 Earliest known date of chess.

Religion 
 Pope Dionysius makes bishop Dionysius of Alexandria explain why he is separating the members of the Trinity as three distinct gods.  
 Paul of Samosata becomes Patriarch of Antioch.

Births 
 Jin Huidi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (approximate date)
 Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman Emperor (d. 311)

Deaths 
 Cao Mao, ruler of the Chinese Kingdom of Wei (killed in an abortive coup d'état against Sima Zhao) (b. 241) 
 Chen Tai, minister of the Kingdom of Wei
 Saloninus, Roman emperor and son of Gallienus 
 Sun Liang, Emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (b. 243) 
 Valerianus I, Roman emperor (approximate date)

260s
Year 284 (CCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 The Bagaudae, a group of peasants, revolt in Gaul against the Roman Empire. The Dardani, a region in Illyria, becomes a Roman province.  
 Emperor Numerian travels through Bithynia (Asia Minor).  He is murdered on his way home to Rome. 
 November 20 – Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, age 39, is made emperor. 
 Sabinus Julianus, Roman usurper against Emperor Carinus, revolts in Pannonia. He attacks northern Italy and makes himself emperor. 
 Winter – Diocletianus moves with his army across the Balkans.

By topic

Religion 
 Patriarch Rufinus I succeeds Patriarch Dometius as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births 
 Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 313)

Deaths 
 Diophantus, Greek mathematician (approximate date)
 Marcus Aurelius Numerian, Roman Emperor 
 Sun Hao, last emperor of the Kingdom of Wu (b. 242)
 Xin Xianying, daughter of Xin Pi (b. 205)

280s
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes proconsul of Africa.

Asia 
 Queen Himiko (aka, Pimiko) starts to rule in Japan.
 Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun are defeated by Han forces under Liu Yu.

Births 
 April 4 – Lucius Septimius Bassianus (Caracalla), Roman Emperor (d. 217)
 Sun Shao, general of Wu (d. 241)

Deaths
Year 480 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece 
 May – King Xerxes I of Persia marches from Sardis and onto Thrace and Macedonia.
 A force of 10,000 Greeks goes to the Vale of Tempe.  
 August 11 – The Battle of Thermopylae ends in victory for the Persians under Xerxes. 
 Pausanias becomes regent for Leonidas' son, Pleistarchus, after Leonidas I is killed at Thermopylae.
 Phocis and the coasts of Euboea are ruined by the Persians. Thebes and most of Boeotia join Xerxes.
 King Alexander I of Macedon must join Xerxes in a battle through Greece.
 August – The Persians win over the Greeks in the Battle of Artemisium.
 September 21 – The Persians sack Athens.  The people leave to Salamis and then Peloponnesus.
 September 28 – The Battle of Salamis brings victory to the Greeks.

Roman Republic 
 Roman troops march against the Veintes.
Sicily 
 Xerxes wants the Carthaginians to attack the Greeks in Sicily. Carthage sends across a large army.
 The Greek city of Himera asks for Carthaginian support in its fight with Akragas. With the help of Gelo, the Carthaginians are defeated in the Battle of Himera. After the defeat, Hamilcar kills himself.

Persian empire 
 The Imperial treasury at the Persepolis Palace is completed after a building time of thirty years.

By topic
By topic

Arts 
 The archaic period of sculpture ends in Greece.  The Severe (Early Classical) period starts(approximate date).
 A sculpture of a Dying warrior is made in the left corner of the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaea in Aegina (approximate date). Today, it is kept at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek in Munich, Germany.
 The sculpture of a Kritios Boy is made on Acropolis, Athens (approximate date). It is now kept in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
 Work begins on the detail Musicians and Dancers on a wall painting in the Tomb of the Lionesses in Tarquinia. It is finished about ten years later.

Births 

 Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
 Antiphon, Attic orator (d. 411 BC)
 Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. c. 405 BC)

Deaths 

 August 11 – Leonidas I, Agiad King of Sparta (died at Thermopylae)
 Xenophanes, Greek philosopher (b. 570 BC)
 Hamilcar, Carthaginian general
Year 495 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Republic 
 A temple is built on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, in Rome, in honour of the god Mercury.

China 
 King Fuchai of Wu ascends to the throne after his father, King Helü of Wu, reigning as the last king of Wu until 473 BC.

Births 

 Pericles, Athenian politician (d. 429 BC)
Arquette is a surname. People with this name include an American family, many of whom are actors:

Cliff Arquette (1904-1974), an actor who was popular on The Tonight Show
Cliff's son Lewis Arquette (1935-2001)
Lewis' children: Rosanna Arquette (born 1959), Richmond Arquette (born 1963), Patricia Arquette (born 1968), Alexis Arquette (1969-2016) and David Arquette (born 1971).

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David James Arquette (born September 8, 1971) is an American actor, movie director, and producer. He was born in Winchester, Virginia to actor Lewis Arquette (1935-2001) and poet Mardi (née Nowak, died 1997). He is best known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Dewey Riley in the Scream movies. 

Arquette played a wrestling fan in the movie Ready to Rumble. To market this movie, WCW hired Arquette to appear on their TV show and win their world title. Arquette argued he should not win the belt because he is not a real wrestler but WCW talked him into it. The attention received was only negative and the backlash eventually caused WCW to go out of business. The movie was also a critical disaster that ruined the careers of some of the actors in it, like Oliver Platt.
Because Arquette is also a wrestling fan in real life, he regretted making a mockery of wrestling and donated the money he made from WCW to families of dead wrestlers Owen Hart and Brian Pillman and also to Darren Drozdov, who was paralyzed in a wrestling match.

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Year 320 (CCCXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Crispus wins against the Franks.
 Licinius stopped the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan.  He persecutes Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Asia 
 King Chandragupta I founds the Gupta dynasty in northern India.
 The Huns appear in Persia.

By topic

Art 
 Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, is started to be built (approximate date).

Culture and Religion 
 In Nydam Mose (Denmark) the Nydam oak boat is sacrificed by the Danes. The boat is excavated in the 1830s, when a local farmer finds weapons including swords and spears.  
 December 25 is introduced as the birthday of Jesus.

Science 
 October 18 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, sees an eclipse of the sun.  He writes on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
Births 
 Aurelius Victor, historian and politician (approximate date)
 Constans I, Roman emperor (d. 350)
 Flavian I, Patriarch of Antioch (d. 404)
 Jin Jianwendi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 372)
 Oribasius, Greek physician (approximate date)
 Tuoba Shiyijian, prince of the Tuoba Dai (d. 376)
 Xie An, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (d. 385)

Deaths 
 Lactantius, Christian writer (approximate date)
 Sima Bao, prince of the Jin Dynasty (b. 294)

320s
Year 274 (CCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Battle of Châlons: Emperor Aurelian reconquers the Gallic Empire. 
 Rome calls Aurelian "Restorer of the World".  
 Aurelian makes an important change of Roman currency. 
 December 25 – Aurelian has a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus. This religion becomes the state religion of Rome.

Africa 
 The Kingdom of Aksum gets great wealth thanks to its control of Red Sea trade.

By topic

Religion 
 December 30 – Pope Felix I dies in Rome after a 5-year reign.

Transportation 
 Japanese shipwrights build a 100-foot oar-powered vessel for Emperor Ōjin. The Japanese will not use sails for another 7 centuries.

Births 
 Li Xiong, first emperor of Cheng Han (d. 334)
 Shi Le, founder and emperor of the Chinese Jie state (d. 333)
Deaths 
 Cao Fang, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 231)
 December 30—Pope Felix I
 Lu Kang, general of the Kingdom of Wu (b. 226)
 Empress Yang Yan, first wife of Emperor Wu (b. 238)
 Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (b. 240)

274
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The President of Ecuador right now is Guillermo Lasso since May 24, 2021. He was elected as the president on April 11, 2021.

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324 (CCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 July 3 – Battle of Adrianople: Emperor Constantine the Great defeats his rival Licinius near Adrianople.  They retreat to Byzantium. He invades Thrace with a Visgothic force and raids the countryside.  
 July – Battle of Hellespont: Crispus, destroys Licinius' naval fleet in the Dardanelles.
 September 18 – Battle of Chrysopolis: Constantine I defeats Licinius at Chrysopolis.  He becomes sole Emperor.
 December 19 – Licinius gives up his position as Emperor.

Religion 
 St Peter's Church is founded in Rome.
 Eustathius becomes bishop of Antioch.

Births 
 Chu Suanzi, empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 384)

Deaths 
 December 20 – Philogonus, Patriarch of Antioch
 Guo Pu, Chinese writer (b. 276)
 Wang Dun, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 266)
 Zhang Mao, ruler of Former Liang (b. 277)

320s
Year 339 (CCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Constantius II goes to his territory in the East. Persia under king Shapur II is attacking Mesopotamia. For the next 11 years the two powers battle with no real winner.

By topic

Religion 
 Pope Julius I gives refuge at Rome to Athanasius.
 Eusebius of Nicomedia is made bishop of Constantinople.  Another Arian becomes bishop of Alexandria.

Births 
 Aurelius Ambrosius, bishop of Milan (approximate date) 
 He Fani, empress of the Jin Dynasty (d. 404)
 Shi Shi, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao (d. 349)

Deaths 
 Abaye, Babylonian amora
 Eusebius of Caesarea, bishop and first church historian (approximate date)
 Shemon Bar Sabbae, bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon 
 Wang Dao, statesman of the Jin Dynasty (b. 276)
The Opéra de Monte-Carlo (Salle Garnier) is an opera house in Monaco. It was built in the 1870s by Prince Charles III of Monaco and the Société des bains de mer de Monaco.  Building was directed by the architect Charles Garnier, who also designed the Palais Garnier in Paris. The Monaco Opera House similar to the Paris Opera House. It seats 524 people. It is in the Belle Époque style. It was opened on 25 January 1879. The house was renovated between 2004 and 2005.

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Year 238 (CCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Emperor Maximinus Thrax battles against the Carpians on the Danube in Moesia (Balkans). 
 March 7 – Romans in Africa go against Maximinus and elect Marcus Antonius Gordianus (Africanus) as emperor. 
 April 12 – Battle of Carthage: Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus invade Africa. Gordian II is killed.  Gordian I commits suicide.
 April 22 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Senate outlaws Maximinus. Pupienus and Balbinus go to the throne.
 Maximinus gets to the town Aquileia in northern Italy. His army has famine and disease.
 July 29 – The Praetorian Guard kill Pupienus and Balbinus. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, is made new emperor. 
 Future Roman Emperor Valerian becomes princeps senatus.
 The Colosseum is restored after being damaged.
 The Goths, coming from Ukraine, cross the Danube and ruin the Roman Empire up to the border with Anatolia.
Asia 
 The Cao Wei general Sima Yi destroys the northeastern Chinese warlord Gongsun Yuan.

Births 
 Empress Yang Yan, first wife of Emperor Wu (d. 274)
 Wen Yang, general of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 291)

Deaths 
 April 12 – Roman emperors Gordian I (suicide) and Gordian II (killed in battle)
 June 24 – Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor (b. 173)
 Maximinus the Younger, Roman Emperor
 July 29 – Pupienus and Balbinus, Roman Emperors
 Gongsun Yuan, warlord of Liaodong
 Lun Zhi, general of Liaodong
 Jia Fan, advisor Liaodong
 Chosroes I, King of Armenia (assassinated)
209 (CCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Publius Septimius Geta gets the titles of Imperator and Augustus from his father, emperor Septimius Severus.
 Severus plans to take the land north of Scotland. The Roman army reaches Aberdeen. The Scottish tribes begin guerrilla warfare against the Romans.

Asia 
 In India, beginning of the reign of Chandashri, Satavahana king of the Andhra.

Births 
 Guan Lu (d. 256)
 Sun Deng, eldest son of Sun Quan (d. 241)
 Xiahou Xuan, minister of  Wei, son of Xiahou Shang (d. 254)

Deaths 
 Chen Lan, general under Yuan Shu
 Jin Xuan
 Liu Qi, son of Liu Biao
 Saint Alban (possible death date)
Year 205 (CCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and his brother Publius Septimius Geta Caesar become Roman Consuls.
 Hadrian's Wall is fixed.
 Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect and father-in-law of Caracalla, is killed.
 Aemilius Papinianus becomes praetorian prefect.

Asia 
 Cao Cao defeats and kills Yuan Tan, the eldest son of his rival Yuan Shao, in the Battle of Nanpi

Births 
 Cao Rui, second emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 239)
 Sima Wang, general of Wei and the Jin Dynasty (d. 271)
 Shan Tao, Chinese taoist (d. 283)
 Plotinus (according to his student Porphyry) (d. 270)
 Xin Xianying, daughter of Xin Pi (d. 284)

Deaths 
 Guo Tu, advisor under Yuan Shao
 Yuan Tan, eldest son of Yuan Shao
Year 197 (CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats Decimus Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). 
 Septimius Severus returns to Rome.  He has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate killed. 
 Septimius Severus forms new naval units.
 The Roman army goes east to stop a Parthian invasion of Mesopotamia. They loot the royal palace at Ctesiphon and take many people as slaves.

By topic

Arts and sciences 
 Galen's major work on medicines, Pharmacologia, is published.

Religion 
 A Christian council is held in Edessa.

Births 
 Deng Ai, Wei general (d. 264)
Deaths 
 February 19 – Clodius Albinus, rival for Roman Emperor (b. 150)
 Cao Ang, first son of Cao Cao (b. 175)
 Cao Anmin, nephew of Cao Cao
 Dian Wei, bodyguard to warlord Cao Cao
 Guo Si, general under Dong Zhuo  (b. 146)
 Huche'er, general under Zhang Xiu
 Li Jue, general under Dong Zhuo
 Liang Gang, general under Yuan Shu
 Qiao Rui, general during the Han Dynasty
 Yue Jiu, general during the Han Dynasty
Year 218 (CCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 May 16 – Elagabalus, age 14, is made emperor of Rome.
 June 8 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats the forces of Macrinus.
 Diadumenianus, son of Macrinus, escapes to the Parthian court.  He is captured at Zeugma and also put to death.

Births 
 Gallienus, later Roman emperor (d. 268)

Deaths
 June
 Macrinus, Roman emperor (b. 165)
 Diadumenian, son of Macrinus
 Gan Ning (approximate date) (b. 175)
 Han Hao, general under Cao Cao
 Jin Yi, minister of Han Dynasty
 Lei Tong
 Yue Jin, commander under Cao Cao

218
Year 239 (CCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

China 
 In the Chinese Kingdom of Wei, Wei Qi Wang succeeds Cao Rui (Wei Ming Di). 
 Chinese discover the island of Taiwan.

By topic

Religion 
 Origen publishes the Old Testament in five languages.

Births

Deaths 
 January 22 – Cao Rui (Wei Ming Di), emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 205)
 Pan Jun, official of Wu

230s
Year 311 (CCCXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 May 5 – Emperor Galerius says there is religious freedom .  He issues his Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. He dies at age 51.
 Maximinus II divides the Eastern Empire. He starts to persecute Christians again.
 Maxentius, Roman usurper, takes the African provinces from Domitius Alexander.
 Maxentius builds the Circus of Maxentius near the Via Appia. 
 December 3 – Diocletianus dies in Split, Croatia.

China 
 Jin Huaidi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is captured at Luoyang. The capital city is looted by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Huns).

By topic

Religion 
 July 2 – Pope Miltiades succeeds Pope Eusebius as the 32nd pope.
 The Donatist split occurs in the African church.

Births
Births

Deaths 
 Domitius Alexander, Roman usurper (approximate date)
 December 3 – Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Roman Emperor
 May 5 – Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman emperor
 November 25 – Saint Peter, Patriarch of Alexandria (martyred)
 Sima Yue, prince and regent of the Jin Dynasty
Year 241 (CCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Winter – Emperor Gordian III reaches Antioch.  He gets his army ready to fight against the Persians.
 Timesitheus becomes Praetorian Prefect

Persia 
 Shapur I succeeds his father Ardashir I as king of Persia.
 The ancient city of Bagram (Afghanistan) is abandoned.
 Shapur I adds parts of the Kushan Empire.

Europe 
 November 1 – The Battle of Samhain is fought in Ireland.

Births 

 Cao Mao, emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (possible date) (d. 260)

Deaths 
 Ardashir I, first ruler of the Sassanid dynasty
 Zhuge Jin, minister of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu, older brother of Zhuge Liang (b. 174)
 Sun Deng, eldest son of Sun Quan (b. 209)

240s
Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena (Syria). King Shapur I must run away to the Euphrates.
 Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I goes back to Persia.
 Emperor Gordian III picks Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect.

Births 
 Sun Liang, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (d. 260)

Deaths 
 Gu Yong, minister of Wu (b. 168)
 Kan Ze, advisor of Wu
 Timesitheus, advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)

240s
Year 313 (CCCXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 February 3 – Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Licinius give religious freedom for all.  They end the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
 Emperor Maximinus II fights at Bosphorus.
 April 30 – Battle of Tzirallum: Licinius defeats his rival Maximinus II.  He becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. Maximinus runs away to Nicomedia and commits suicide.

Asia 
 March 14 – Emperor Jin Huidi is killed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao). 
 Crown prince Jin Mindi, age 13, becomes the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty.

By topic

Art 
 Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova), Rome, is finished.

Religion 
 Constantine I and Licinius accept Christianity.
 October 2 – Lateran Synod: Donatism is made a heresy.
 Arius preaches of the human nature of Jesus.
Births 
 Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologian (approximate date)
 Shi Hong, emperor of the Chinese Jie state (d. 334)

Deaths 
 Achillas, Patriarch of Alexandria
 Dowager Zhang, empress of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao)
 March 14 – Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 284)
 Maximinus II, Roman Emperor (b. 270)
 Zhang Huiguang, empress of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao)

310s
217 (CCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire 
 April 8 – Caracalla is killed by his legionaries near Edessa. Marcus Opellius Macrinus head of the Praetorian Guard, calls himself Roman emperor. 
 Summer – Battle of Nisibis: The Roman army is defeated in a three days battle by the Parthians at Nisibis (southern Turkey).
 King Artabanus IV signs a peace treaty with Rome.  
 Macrinus, of Mauritania, becomes the first equestrian Roman emperor. 
 Empress Julia kills herself. 
 The Colosseum is badly damaged by fire.  It destroys the wooden upper levels of the amphitheater.

By topic

Religion 
 December 20 – The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope. Hippolytus says he should not be Pope.
 Hippolytus begins his "pontificate" as antipope.
 Ciriacus succeeds Philadelphus as Patriarch of Constantinople.