243

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)

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