Events

• Under the command of Emperor Aurelian, the Roman Army sacks the city of Palmyra.
• Sassanid Shah Bahram I succeeded Hormizd I.
• Marcus Claudius Tacitus, future Roman Emperor, is consul in Rome.
• Tetricus I and Tetricus II are deposed as Gallic Emperors by Aurelian.

Births

Deaths

• Dexippus, Greek historian