This article is about the year 244. For the number 244, see 244 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
| Decades: | 210s 220s 230s – 240s – 250s 260s 270s |
| Years: | 241 242 243 – 244 – 245 246 247 |
| 244 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 244 CCXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 997 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1600 – -1599 |
| Bengali calendar | -349 |
| Berber calendar | 1194 |
| Buddhist calendar | 788 |
| Burmese calendar | -394 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5752 – 5753 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十二月初四日 (2880/2940-12-4) — to —
甲子年十一月十五日(2881/2941-11-15) |
| Coptic calendar | -40 – -39 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 236 – 237 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4004 – 4005 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 299 – 300 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 166 – 167 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3345 – 3346 |
| Holocene calendar | 10244 |
| Iranian calendar | 378 BP – 377 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 390 BH – 389 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2577 |
| Thai solar calendar | 787 |
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- February 11—Emperor Gordian III is killed by his Praetorian Prefect Philip the Arab after Philip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.
- Philip the Arab becomes Emperor.
- Rome loses Armenia to the Sassanides.
- Philip the Arab constructs the city of Shahba, in Syria, the province of his birth.
By topic
Arts and sciences
- Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.
- 244–249 – Philip the Arab, is made. It is now kept at Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome.
- 244–245 – House-synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, is built. It is reconstructed in the National Museum of Damascus, Damascus, Syria.
Births
- December 22 – Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Roman Emperor
- Alexander of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (possible date)
Deaths
- February 11—Gordian III, Roman emperor (b. 225)
- Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica
- Cao Xun (b. 230)
- Zhang Cheng, general of Eastern Wu (b. 178)
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