252

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

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.

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

252 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	252 CCLII
Ab urbe condita	1005
Assyrian calendar	5002
Balinese saka calendar	173–174
Bengali calendar	−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	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 378 or −3 or −775     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 379 or −2 or −774

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Battle of Barbalissos: King Shapur I defeats the Roman army (some 70,000 men) at Barbalissos in Syria (approximate date).

Persia

• Shapur I puts down the revolt in Khorasan (Iran and Turkmenistan), and rejoins his army.
• Shapur I invades Armenia, and appoints Artavazd VI as the new Armenian king.
• Georgia submits peacefully to Shapur I, and becomes a vassal of the Sassanid Empire.

Asia

• Sun Liang succeeds his father Sun Quan, as emperor of the Chinese state of Eastern Wu.

By topic

Religion

• Pope Cornelius is exiled to Centumcellae, by Emperor Trebonianus Gallus.

Births

• Eusignius of Antioch, Roman general and martyr (d. 362)
• Wang Jun (or Pengzu), Chinese general and warlord (d. 314)
• Wei Huacun, founder of the Shangqing sect of Daoism (d. 334)

Deaths

• May 21 – Sun Quan, founder of the Eastern Wu state (b. 182)
• Pan (or Pan Shu), Chinese empress of the Eastern Wu state
• Tian Yu (or Guorang), Chinese general and politician (b. 171)
• Tiridates II (or Khosrov), Roman client king of Armenia