252

This article is about the year 252. For the number, see 252 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	220s  230s  240s  – 250s –  260s  270s  280s
Years:	249 250 251 – 252 – 253 254 255

252 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

252 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	252 CCLII
Ab urbe condita	1005
Assyrian calendar	5002
Bengali calendar	−341
Berber calendar	1202
Buddhist calendar	796
Burmese calendar	−386
Byzantine calendar	5760–5761
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2948 or 2888     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2949 or 2889
Coptic calendar	−32 – −31
Discordian calendar	1418
Ethiopian calendar	244–245
Hebrew calendar	4012–4013
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	308–309
- Shaka Samvat	174–175
- Kali Yuga	3353–3354
Holocene calendar	10252
Iranian calendar	370 BP – 369 BP
Islamic calendar	381 BH – 380 BH
Julian calendar	252 CCLII
Korean calendar	2585
Minguo calendar	1660 before ROC 民前1660年
Seleucid era	563/564 AG
Thai solar calendar	794–795

Year 252 (CCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the 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). The denomination 252 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I, defeats a Roman field army at Barbalissos in Syria (probable date, could have been in 253). The size of the Roman field army have been thought to be 70000 men strong, yet this is unlikely.

Persia

• Shapur I, king of Persia, puts the revolt in Khorasan (Iran) down and rejoines with his army. He invades Armenia and appoints Artavazd VI as the new Armenian king. Georgia submits peacefully to Shapur I, and is made a special province in the Persian Empire.

Asia

• Sun Liang succeeds Sun Quan as king of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu.

By topic

Religion

• Pope Cornelius is exiled to Centumcellae by emperor Trebonianus Gallus.

Births

• Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (d. 334)

Deaths

• Sun Quan, Chinese warlord and founder of the Kingdom of Wu (b. 182)
• Empress Pan, wife of Sun Quan