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Events

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Roman Empire

• February 11 — Emperor Gordian III is killed by his Praetorian Prefect Philip the Arab after Phillip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.
• Philip the Arab becomes Emperor.
• Rome loses Mesopotamia and Armenia to the Sassanides.
• Aurelian defeats the Franks at Mainz.
• Philip the Arab constucts the city of Shahba, in Syria, the province of his birth.

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Arts and Sciences

• Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.

Births

• Alexander of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (possible date)

Deaths

• February 11 — Gordian III, Roman emperor
• Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica
• Cao Xun
• Zhang Cheng, general of Eastern Wu

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