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Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
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Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena (Syria). King Shapur I must run away to the Euphrates.
- Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I goes back to Persia.
- Emperor Gordian III picks Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect.
Births
- Sun Liang, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (d. 260)
Deaths
- Gu Yong, minister of Wu (b. 168)
- Kan Ze, advisor of Wu
- Timesitheus, advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)
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