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Roman Empire

• Emperor Aurelian sends his commander Marcus Aurelius Probus to restore Roman rule in Egypt.
• During the Siege of Tyana, Emperor Aurelian has a dream of Apollonius of Tyana and spares the city.
• Battle of Immae: Aurelian defeats the forces of the Palmyrene Empire near Antioch. Queen Zenobia flees under cover of darkness to Emesa.
• Battle of Emesa: Aurelian destroys the Palmyrene heavy cavalry and conquers Palmyra. Zenobia escapes to Persia but is captured on the Euphrates.
• Aurelian lays siege to Palmyra after a revolt; he restores Roman control and sacks the city. Zenobia and her son Vabalathus are forced to parade in golden chains through the streets of Rome.
• Rome forms an alliance with the king of Aksum.
• Dacia is abandoned.

  Persia

• King Shapur I of Persia dies after a reign of more than 30 years; he is succeeded by his eldest son Hormizd I.

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Religion

• Dometius succeeds Titus as Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Saint Denis, first Bishop of Paris, and two of his disciples are beheaded on the road to the Temple of Mercury that stands atop a hill outside of the city. The hill will later be called Montmartre in Lutetia.
• Paul of Samosata is deposed as Patriarch of Antioch.