237

This article is about the year 237. For the number, see 237 (number).

Year 237 (CCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Perpetuus and Felix (or, less frequently, year 990 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 237 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.

237 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	237 CCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	990
Assyrian calendar	4987
Balinese saka calendar	158–159
Bengali calendar	−357 – −356
Berber calendar	1187
Buddhist calendar	781
Burmese calendar	−401
Byzantine calendar	5745–5746
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2934 or 2727     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2935 or 2728
Coptic calendar	−47 – −46
Discordian calendar	1403
Ethiopian calendar	229–230
Hebrew calendar	3997–3998
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	293–294
- Shaka Samvat	158–159
- Kali Yuga	3337–3338
Holocene calendar	10237
Iranian calendar	385 BP – 384 BP
Islamic calendar	397 BH – 396 BH
Javanese calendar	115–116
Julian calendar	237 CCXXXVII
Korean calendar	2570
Minguo calendar	1675 before ROC 民前1675年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1231
Seleucid era	548/549 AG
Thai solar calendar	779–780
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 363 or −18 or −790     — to — མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 364 or −17 or −789

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns on the rivers Danube and Rhine in Germania, defeating the Alemanni, and never visits Rome. He is accepted by the Roman Senate, but taxes the rich aristocracy heavily, and engenders such hostility among them, that they plot against him.

Persia

• King Ardashir I of Persia renews his attacks on the Roman province of Mesopotamia.

By topic

Religion

• Patriarch Eugenius I succeeds Patriarch Castinus as Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Saint Babylas becomes Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

• Alexander of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
• Guo Huai (or Yuhuang), Chinese noblewoman (d. 296)
• Philip II (the Younger), Roman emperor (d. 249)

Deaths

• February 7 – Chen Qun, Chinese official and politician
• September 22 – Mingdao (or Mao), Chinese empress
• Wu Yi (or Ziyuan), Chinese general of the Shu Han state
• Zhang (or Jing'ai), Chinese empress of the Shu Han state