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This article is about the year 243. For the number, see 243 (number). For other uses, see 243 (disambiguation).

243 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	243 CCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	996
Assyrian calendar	4993
Balinese saka calendar	164–165
Bengali calendar	−351 – −350
Berber calendar	1193
Buddhist calendar	787
Burmese calendar	−395
Byzantine calendar	5751–5752
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2940 or 2733     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2941 or 2734
Coptic calendar	−41 – −40
Discordian calendar	1409
Ethiopian calendar	235–236
Hebrew calendar	4003–4004
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	299–300
- Shaka Samvat	164–165
- Kali Yuga	3343–3344
Holocene calendar	10243
Iranian calendar	379 BP – 378 BP
Islamic calendar	391 BH – 390 BH
Javanese calendar	121–122
Julian calendar	243 CCXLIII
Korean calendar	2576
Minguo calendar	1669 before ROC 民前1669年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1225
Seleucid era	554/555 AG
Thai solar calendar	785–786
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 369 or −12 or −784     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 370 or −11 or −783

Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Arrianus and Papus (or, less frequently, year 996 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 243 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Sassanids at Resaena (modern Syria); King Shapur I is forced to flee to the Euphrates.
• Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I retreats to the Sassanid Empire, giving up all the territories he has conquered.
• Emperor Gordian III appoints Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect (after the death of Timesitheus) and proceeds with his campaign in Mesopotamia.
• Cohors I Ubiorum, the garrison at Capidava in Scythia Minor, is replaced by Cohors I Germanorum Civium Romanorum, until the end of the 3rd century AD.

Asia

• Fan Chan of Funan sends a tribute mission to China (approximate date).

Births

• Sun Hao, Chinese emperor of the Eastern Wu state (d. 284)
• Sun Liang, Chinese emperor of the Eastern Wu state (d. 260)

Deaths

• Gu Yong (or Yuantan), Chinese official and politician (b. 168)
• Hu Zong (or Weize), Chinese official and general (b. 183)
• Timesitheus, Roman advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)
• Xue Zong (or Jingwen), Chinese official, politician and poet