See also: List of centuries , Roman numerals

The ^third century begins on January ¹ 201 and ends on 31 December 300.

Events

China

• In 220 , end of empire Han ( China ).
• The Nanzhou yiwu zhi (Report on the oddities of the southern regions) described vessels Kunlun is to say, Indonesia , from 60 meters with 600 to 700 men on board.

America

• Occupation of Monte Alban by Zapotec (200-900).
• Development of the civilization of Tiahuanaco in the Andes (200-700).

Black Africa

• Sembrouthes , King of Axum ( Ethiopia ). A prince in the Hellenized name Sembrouths, King of Kings of Axum (first appearance of the titular imperial), dedicated to the ^Second or ^third century Greek stele at Decca-Mahara site of an important shrine.

Oceania

• Loss of culture Lapita in the eastern Pacific, with the manufacturing techniques of ceramics.

India

• Dynasty Pallava , driven by Western Gautamlputra the previous century, dominates the region of Madras ^(III - ^IX ). It creates many ports on the coast of Coromandel , trade with Ceylon and Malaysia.
• Appearance of the first cities on the plateau of Deccan.
• Christian communities in southern India.
• Sattasa , poetry valuable Hala, 700 stanzas written in Prakrit.

Middle East

• There are several Christian centers in Armenia. The Christianity has been introduced by the Apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus ( St. Jude ), the disciples of Jesus Christ.

Western Europe

• Crisis of the Roman Empire : the period known as the military anarchy is marked by the barbarian invasions , civil wars, armed rebellions, secession of provinces. Adjustment at the end of the century. (See also Tetrarchy ).
• Demographic crisis in the Roman Empire, which forces the state and landowners to tie peasants to the land (colonat system). Originally, the settlers out of the class of small landowners (Possessor). Crushed by taxation, debt-ridden, they voluntarily give up their property. Sometimes they join the troops of barbarians where Bagaudes wandering in Gaul. Most often they remain faithful to their land and seek protection (patrocinium) a large landowner. They abandoned their property, preserve the enjoyment until they die, unable to leave.
• Persecution of Decius (249-250) against Christianity.
• Reference Eruli ( Heruli ), leading experts in runes of Denmark ( Jutland ) to the Aegean Sea , by Russia and the Black Sea.
• Jewish discovery of an inscription on a tombstone, dated III ^century, at Abdera (Adra), south of Granada (Spain).

Eastern Europe

• ^Third and ^fourth century : some 50 manufacturing sites of iron were found in the region of Lysa Gora in Poland , with batteries of ovens arranged in ranks. The iron produced is sold to neighboring areas, and perhaps in the Roman Empire to the south.
• The Khazars are attested in the West by chronic Georgian or Armenian.
• Migration of the Goths from the banks of the Vistula to the Black Sea.
• Culture Tcherniakov (important site near Kiev ) in the early century. Pottery gray or black on the grounds polished iron tools, ornaments and objects imported from the Roman Empire. She disappeared around 400 with the arrival of Huns.

Significant Figures

Political Leaders

• Caracalla ( 188 - 217 ), Roman emperor ( 211 - 217 ).
• Aurelian , Roman emperor ( 270 - 275 ).
• Diocletian ( 245 - 313 ), Roman emperor ( 284 - 305 ).
• Liu Bei (AC 161 , 223 ), lord of the Chinese end of the Han Dynasty and the beginning of the period of Three Kingdoms.
• Cao Cao ( 155 , 220 ), Lord of War, Chinese writer and poet.

Philosopher

• Plotinus (Egyptian philosopher, 205 - 270 ).

Scientists

• Diophantus of Alexandria ( 200 / 214 , 284 / 298 ), Greek mathematician.
• Pappus of Alexandria , Greek mathematician.
• Liu Hui , Chinese mathematician.
• Zosimus of Panopolis , Egyptian alchemist. It creates a true mysterion of alchemy in search of philosophic mercury , invigorating all metals.

Religious

• Origen ( 185 - 254 ), Father of the Church , originally of the theory of the four directions and Lectio Divina.
• Clement of Alexandria (AC 150 , AC 220 ), father of the Church.
• Tertullian (between 150 and 160 , between 230 and 240 ), theologian, father of the Church.
• Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 - 235 ), considered the first Antipope.
• Mani (prophet) (b. 216 ), founder of Manichaeism.
• Wang Pi ( 226 - 249 ), Chinese Taoist scholar of the period of Three Kingdoms.

Military

• Zhuge Liang ( 181 , 234 ), China strategist at the time of the Three Kingdoms.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Discovery Hjortspring (Denmark) in 1921-1922 to a warship with 150 weapons surrounded wooden shields, 138 spear points and 20 coats of mail. All wood, with an oar-rudder to starboard, the boat is assembled without a nail, by wooden pegs, without mast or keel or sail.
• Appearance of the first runic inscriptions (alphabet Futhark ). The Germans of the Middle Danube have taken this writing alphabets derived from the Etruscan writing used by subalpine populations. The runic script is essentially epigraphic, the letters are engraved in stone to form entries. The Germans quickly abandon the continent this writing, which will continue in Scandinavia via Denmark.
• Appearance in Egypt of the Coptic script , derived from demotic and, mostly, letters borrowed from the Greek alphabet ^References
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