256

This page relates to the year 256 Calendrier Julien.

Events

• the assertion of Ruffius Festus: “under the emperor Gallien the Dacie was lost” (in the north of the the Danube only). No detail of the event is known if not that the Goths beat the Romans.

• the Goths appear under the walls of Thessalonique.

• the Berbères of Roman Africa start to massacre the Roman colonists.

• Council of Carthage (256)

• the Sassanide Chahpuhr Ier destroyed Assur, takes Antioche with the assistance of the defector Mariadès (Cyriadès). Autonomous Syrian resistance to Emèse (current Homs).

• the Frank and the Alamans make incursions in Gaulle and Spain.

• the future emperor Aurélien, in the capacity as dux, receives mission of inspecting and of organizing the camps of the border of the the Rhine.
• Construction of the Castellum (camp) of Jublains (Mayenne) of 256 with 270.

• Strong devaluation of the currency in the Roman Empire. The weight of the argentueus Aurelianus Antonianus is reduced and passes from 5,45 G to 5,10 G during its creation (215) to three grams. Its title is reduced (fine metal 50% at the beginning, 1,25% thereafter). The State in striking of enormous quantities. The foreign trade, in front of the attitude of the importers who require the payment out of gold where in old money sums of money, rarefies or stops. Inside, thanks to the forced course, the Antonianus continues to circulate, but its constant depreciation results in the flight of the prices and the continual variation of the course. Barter develops between private individuals, and the State pays balances it army and the salary civils servant in kind.

Births in 256

• Arius, priest, founder of the heresy of Ariens.

Death in 256

• Sun Jun

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