271

Year 271 (CCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

271 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	271 CCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	1024
Assyrian calendar	5021
Balinese saka calendar	192–193
Bengali calendar	−322
Berber calendar	1221
Buddhist calendar	815
Burmese calendar	−367
Byzantine calendar	5779–5780
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 2967 or 2907     — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2968 or 2908
Coptic calendar	−13 – −12
Discordian calendar	1437
Ethiopian calendar	263–264
Hebrew calendar	4031–4032
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	327–328
- Shaka Samvat	192–193
- Kali Yuga	3371–3372
Holocene calendar	10271
Iranian calendar	351 BP – 350 BP
Islamic calendar	362 BH – 361 BH
Javanese calendar	150–151
Julian calendar	271 CCLXXI
Korean calendar	2604
Minguo calendar	1641 before ROC 民前1641年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1197
Seleucid era	582/583 AG
Thai solar calendar	813–814
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 397 or 16 or −756     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 398 or 17 or −755

Roman Empire (271)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Aurelian pushes the Vandals back from Pannonia.
• January
  • Battle of Placentia: The Alamanni invade Italy. They take the city of Piacenza.
  • Battle of Fano: The Alamanni move toward Rome. Aurelian defeats the Germanic tribes on the Metauro River.
• Battle of Pavia: The Roman army chase after the Alamanni in Lombardy.
• Felicissimus leads an uprising against Aurelian. He is defeated and killed on the Caelian Hill.
• Aurelian begins to build a new defensive wall to protect Rome.

Europe

• Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire, is killed by Attitianus. Domitianus is Emperor for a few days before being replaced by Tetricus I.

Syria

• Zenobia makes herself to be Empress. She breaks all relations with the Roman Empire.
• Zenobia gives her son Vaballathus the title of Augustus.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• King Shapur I builds the Academy of Gundishapur (Iran).
• A magnetic compass is first used in China.

Births

• Sima Wei, prince during the Jin Dynasty (d. 291)

Deaths

• Ding Feng, general of the Kingdom of Wu
• Domitianus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire
• Felicissimus, Roman financial minister (rationalis)
• Liu Shan, last Emperor of the Kingdom of Shu (b. 207)
• Pei Xiu, minister and cartographer of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 224)
• Sima Wang, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 205)
• Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire