# 252

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This article is about the year 252. For the number, see [252 (number)](/source/252_(number)).

Calendar year

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 v t e

252 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths v t e

252 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 252 CCLII Ab urbe condita 1005 Assyrian calendar 5002 Balinese saka calendar 173–174 Bengali calendar −342 – −341 Berber calendar 1202 Buddhist calendar 796 Burmese calendar −386 Byzantine calendar 5760–5761 Chinese calendar 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2949 or 2742 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2950 or 2743 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 ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 378 or −3 or −775 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 379 or −2 or −774

Year **252** (**[CCLII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [leap year starting on Thursday](/source/Leap_year_starting_on_Thursday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/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](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 252 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Roman Empire

- [Battle of Barbalissos](/source/Battle_of_Barbalissos): King [Shapur I](/source/Shapur_I) defeats the Roman army (some 70,000 men) at [Barbalissos](/source/Barbalissos) in [Syria](/source/Syria) (approximate date).[1]

#### Persia

- Shapur I puts down the [revolt](/source/Rebellion) in [Khorasan](/source/Greater_Khorasan) ([Iran](/source/Iran) and [Turkmenistan](/source/Turkmenistan)), and rejoins his army.

- Shapur I invades [Armenia](/source/Armenia), and appoints [Artavazd VI](/source/Artavazd_VI) as the new Armenian king.

- [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(country)) submits peacefully to Shapur I, and becomes a vassal of the [Sassanid Empire](/source/Sassanid_Empire).

#### Asia

- [Sun Liang](/source/Sun_Liang) succeeds his father [Sun Quan](/source/Sun_Quan), as emperor of the Chinese state of [Eastern Wu](/source/Eastern_Wu).

### By topic

#### Religion

- Pope [Cornelius](/source/Pope_Cornelius) is exiled to [Centumcellae](/source/Civitavecchia), by Emperor [Trebonianus Gallus](/source/Trebonianus_Gallus).

## Births

- [Eusignius of Antioch](/source/Eusignius_of_Antioch), Roman general and martyr (d. [362](/source/362))

- [Wang Jun](/source/Wang_Jun_(Pengzu)) (or **Pengzu**), Chinese general and warlord (d. [314](/source/314))

- [Wei Huacun](/source/Wei_Huacun), founder of the [Shangqing](/source/Shangqing_School) sect of [Daoism](/source/Daoism) (d. [334](/source/334))

## Deaths

- [May 21](/source/May_21) – [Sun Quan](/source/Sun_Quan), founder of the [Eastern Wu](/source/Eastern_Wu) state (b. [182](/source/182))

- [Pan](/source/Pan_Shu) (or **Pan Shu**), Chinese empress of the Eastern Wu state

- [Tian Yu](/source/Tian_Yu) (or **Guorang**), Chinese general and politician (b. [171](/source/171))

- [Tiridates II](/source/Tiridates_II_of_Armenia) (or **Khosrov**), Roman client king of [Armenia](/source/Arsacid_dynasty_of_Armenia)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen; Bowman, Alan; Garnsey, Peter; Cameron, Averil (1970). [*The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12, The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337*](https://books.google.com/books?id=MNSyT_PuYVMC&q=siege+of+nisibis+252+sassanian+victory/&pg=PA468). Cambridge University Press. p. 469. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-30199-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-30199-2).

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