276

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 
 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

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