Year 273 (CCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tacitus and Placidianus (or, less frequently, year 1026 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 273 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. The year also saw most lost territories to rebellion returned to the Roman Empire by Emperor Aurelian.

Events

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By place

Roman Empire

• Marcus Claudius Tacitus, future Roman Emperor, is consul in Rome.

• Emperor Aurelian defeats an incursion by the Carpi into Moesia and Thrace.

• Aurelian sacks the city of Palmyra, after putting down a second revolt.

• In bitter street-fighting, Aurelian crushes a rebellion in Alexandria by Firmus, a sympathizer of Palmyra. Firmus is strangled to death.

Persia

• King Hormizd I of Persia dies after a brief reign in which he has shown tolerance toward the ascetic, anti-materialist Manichean faith. He is succeeded by his brother Bahram I, who has been governing the province of Atropatene. Bahram proceeds to crush a rebellion by various vassal kings.

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Deaths

• June 1 Reverianus, Christian bishop

• Callinicus, Greek historian and sophist

• Cassius Longinus, Greek philosopher

• Dexippus, Greek general and historian

• Hormizd I, king of the Sassanid Empire

• Septimius Antiochus, Roman usurper

• Wei Zhao, Chinese historian and scholar (b. 204)

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