270

Year 270 (CCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

270 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	270 CCLXX
Ab urbe condita	1023
Assyrian calendar	5020
Balinese saka calendar	191–192
Bengali calendar	−323
Berber calendar	1220
Buddhist calendar	814
Burmese calendar	−368
Byzantine calendar	5778–5779
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 2966 or 2906     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 2967 or 2907
Coptic calendar	−14 – −13
Discordian calendar	1436
Ethiopian calendar	262–263
Hebrew calendar	4030–4031
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	326–327
- Shaka Samvat	191–192
- Kali Yuga	3370–3371
Holocene calendar	10270
Iranian calendar	352 BP – 351 BP
Islamic calendar	363 BH – 362 BH
Javanese calendar	149–150
Julian calendar	270 CCLXX
Korean calendar	2603
Minguo calendar	1642 before ROC 民前1642年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1198
Seleucid era	581/582 AG
Thai solar calendar	812–813
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 396 or 15 or −757     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 397 or 16 or −756

Emperor Aurelianus

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Claudius II Gothicus dies. He is succeeded by his brother Quintillus.
• Quintillus commits suicide. He is succeeded by Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.
• Aurelianus pushes the Goths back across the Danube and recovers Roman land.
• The Romans leave Utrecht because the Germanic tribes keep fighting.
• Crisis of the Third Century: An economic crisis starts in the Roman empire.

By topic

Technology

• The Chinese invent gunpowder. At first, it appears to be used only for fireworks.

Births

• November 20 – Maximinus II, Roman Emperor
• Nicholas of Myra (Santa Claus) (d. 343)
• Rabbah bar Nahmani, Babylonian 'amora
• Saint Spyridon, bishop of Trimythous (d. 348)

Deaths

• St. Valentine (executed by Claudius II) (Possible year)
• Claudius II, Roman Emperor (b. 213)
• Quintillus, Roman emperor
• Plotinus, father of Neo-Platonism (b. c. 205) (approximate date)
• Jingu of Japan, possibly legendary empress of Japan
• Luo Xian, general of the Kingdom of Shu
• Qiao Zhou, minister of the Kingdom of Shu (b. 201)