235

Year 235 (CCXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 235th Year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 235th year of the 1st millennium, the 35th year of the 3rd century, and the 6th year of the 230s decade. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Quintianus (or, less frequently, year 988 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 235 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	210s 220s 230s 240s 250s
Years:	232 233 234 235 236 237 238

235 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	235 CCXXXV
Ab urbe condita	988
Assyrian calendar	4985
Balinese saka calendar	156–157
Bengali calendar	−358
Berber calendar	1185
Buddhist calendar	779
Burmese calendar	−403
Byzantine calendar	5743–5744
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2931 or 2871     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2932 or 2872
Coptic calendar	−49 – −48
Discordian calendar	1401
Ethiopian calendar	227–228
Hebrew calendar	3995–3996
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	291–292
- Shaka Samvat	156–157
- Kali Yuga	3335–3336
Holocene calendar	10235
Iranian calendar	387 BP – 386 BP
Islamic calendar	399 BH – 398 BH
Javanese calendar	113–114
Julian calendar	235 CCXXXV
Korean calendar	2568
Minguo calendar	1677 before ROC 民前1677年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1233
Seleucid era	546/547 AG
Thai solar calendar	777–778
Tibetan calendar	阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 361 or −20 or −792     — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 362 or −19 or −791

Emperor Maximinus Thrax

Events

Roman Empire

• This year is said to have been the beginning of the decline of the Roman empire.
• March 19 – Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Iulia Mamaea are murdered by their own soldiers near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz); Legio XXII Primigenia mutinies. The Severan dynasty ends; this marks the epoch event of the Crisis of the Third Century.
• March 20 – Maximinus Thrax, age 62, is proclaimed Augustus. He is not a senator but the second emperor of the equestrian order since Macrinus 17 years earlier. Maximinus had been a common soldier in the army, serving in the Auxilia and the Imperial Horseguards to become governor of several provinces.
• Widely considered to be the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century: The Roman Empire is under pressure by the Alamanni, Franks, Goths, Quadi and Sassanids (Persia).

Religion

• September 28 – Pope Pontian resigns, the first to abdicate, because he and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia. Emperor Maximinus persecutes the Christians.
• November 21 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope.
• Origen makes revisions to the Septuagint.

Births

• Sun Xiu, Chinese emperor of the Eastern Wu state (d. 264)

Deaths

• March 14 – Guo Nüwang, Chinese empress of the Cao Wei state (b. 184)
• March 19 – Severus Alexander, Roman Emperor (b. 208)
• October – Pope Pontian
• Hippolytus, Christian writer (b. 170)
• Julia Avita Mamaea, mother of Alexander Severus (b. c. 180)

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