252

Year 252 (CCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Trebonianus and Volusianus (or, less frequently, year 1005 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 252 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:	230s 240s 250s 260s 270s
Years:	249 250 251 252 253 254 255

252 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	252 CCLII
Ab urbe condita	1005
Assyrian calendar	5002
Balinese saka calendar	173–174
Bengali calendar	−341
Berber calendar	1202
Buddhist calendar	796
Burmese calendar	−386
Byzantine calendar	5760–5761
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2948 or 2888     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2949 or 2889
Coptic calendar	−32 – −31
Discordian calendar	1418
Ethiopian calendar	244–245
Hebrew calendar	4012–4013
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	308–309
- Shaka Samvat	173–174
- Kali Yuga	3352–3353
Holocene calendar	10252
Iranian calendar	370 BP – 369 BP
Islamic calendar	381 BH – 380 BH
Javanese calendar	130–132
Julian calendar	252 CCLII
Korean calendar	2585
Minguo calendar	1660 before ROC 民前1660年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1216
Seleucid era	563/564 AG
Thai solar calendar	794–795
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 378 or −3 or −775     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 379 or −2 or −774

Events

Roman Empire

• Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I defeats a Roman field army at Barbalissos in Syria (probable date, could have been in 253). The size of the Roman field army is claimed by Persian sources to have been 70,000 men strong, yet this is unlikely.

Persia

• King Shapur I of Persia puts down the revolt in Khorasan (Iran and Turkmenistan), and rejoins his army.
• Shapur I invades Armenia, and appoints Artavazd VI as the new Armenian king.
• Georgia submits peacefully to Shapur I, and is made a special province in the Persian Empire.

China

• Sun Liang succeeds his father Sun Quan, as emperor of the Chinese state of Eastern Wu.

Religion

• Pope Cornelius is exiled to Centumcellae, by Emperor Trebonianus Gallus.

Births

• Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (d. 334)

Deaths

• May 21 – Sun Quan, Chinese warlord, founder of the Eastern Wu state in the Three Kingdoms period (b. 182)
• Empress Pan, Chinese empress of the Eastern Wu state
• Tian Yu, Chinese general of the Cao Wei state (b. 171)

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