# 263

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Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 2nd century 3rd century 4th century Decades 240s 250s 260s 270s 280s Years 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 v t e

263 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Deaths Disestablishments v t e

263 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 263 CCLXIII Ab urbe condita 1016 Assyrian calendar 5013 Balinese saka calendar 184–185 Bengali calendar −331 – −330 Berber calendar 1213 Buddhist calendar 807 Burmese calendar −375 Byzantine calendar 5771–5772 Chinese calendar 壬午年 (Water Horse) 2960 or 2753 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2961 or 2754 Coptic calendar −21 – −20 Discordian calendar 1429 Ethiopian calendar 255–256 Hebrew calendar 4023–4024 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 319–320 - Shaka Samvat 184–185 - Kali Yuga 3363–3364 Holocene calendar 10263 Iranian calendar 359 BP – 358 BP Islamic calendar 370 BH – 369 BH Javanese calendar 142–143 Julian calendar 263 CCLXIII Korean calendar 2596 Minguo calendar 1649 before ROC 民前1649年 Nanakshahi calendar −1205 Seleucid era 574/575 AG Thai solar calendar 805–806 Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 389 or 8 or −764 — to — ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 390 or 9 or −763

[Three Kingdoms](/source/Three_Kingdoms) ([China](/source/China))

Year **263** (**[CCLXIII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Thursday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Thursday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). At the time, it was known as the **Year of the Consulship of Albinus and Dexter** (or, less frequently, **year 1016 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 263 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

- King [Odenathus](/source/Odenathus) of [Palmyra](/source/Palmyra) declares himself ruler of the area west of the [River Euphrates](/source/Euphrates) and is declared *Dux Orientalis* by the Roman emperor [Gallienus](/source/Gallienus).

#### Asia

- [Conquest of Shu by Wei](/source/Conquest_of_Shu_by_Wei): The Chinese state of [Cao Wei](/source/Cao_Wei) conquers [Shu Han](/source/Shu_Han), one of its two rival states.

- [Sima Zhao](/source/Sima_Zhao), regent of the [Cao Wei](/source/Cao_Wei) state, receives and accepts the [nine bestowments](/source/Nine_bestowments), state chancellorship, and the title *Duke of Jin* from [Cao Huan](/source/Cao_Huan).

### By topic

#### Art and Science

- Chinese mathematician [Liu Hui](/source/Liu_Hui) writes a commentary on *[The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art](/source/The_Nine_Chapters_on_the_Mathematical_Art)*, describing what will later be called [Gaussian elimination](/source/Gaussian_elimination), computing [pi](/source/Pi), etc.[1]

## Deaths

- [Gao Rou](/source/Gao_Rou) (or **Wenhui**), Chinese politician (b. [174](/source/174))

- [Lady Li](/source/Lady_Li_(Three_Kingdoms)) (or **Lishi**), Chinese noblewoman

- [Liu Chen](/source/Liu_Chen_(Shu_Han)), Chinese prince of the [Shu Han](/source/Shu_Han) state

- [Ruan Ji](/source/Ruan_Ji), Chinese poet and musician (b. [210](/source/210))

- [Zhuge Zhan](/source/Zhuge_Zhan), Chinese general and politician (b. [227](/source/227))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Needham, Joseph (1959). [*Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth*](https://books.google.com/books?id=jfQ9E0u4pLAC). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 30. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-05801-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-05801-8). {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date))

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