240

This page relates to the year 240 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • April 12th: The Sassanide Chahpuhr Ier (Shâhpuhr) is crowned with Ctésiphon in partnership with his/her Ardachîr father.

  • the king Sassanide of Persia Ardachîr Ier destroyed Hatra.
  • Mani (216 - 277) sermon its doctrines, the Manicheism, in Iran. It is founded on knowledge, source of hello, and accentuates the opposition between the Good and the Evil.
  • Mani places the kingdom of Aksoum among the four great powers of the world, after Rome and the Perse, but before the China.

  • has Carthage, the proconsul of Africa (?) Sabinianus is made proclaim emperor. Delivered by its partisans even to the procurator of the Maurétanie, it is put at death.

Births in 240

Death in 240

  • Tertullien, Christian writer Carthaginian montanist (150 -240).

Map-bms: 240

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