276

This page relates to the year 276 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • June: Tacite is assassinated by its soldiers in Cilicie. Annius Florianus, his/her brother, is proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian ones in Occident. The army of the East proclaims Probus, the best lieutenant illyrien of Aurélien. Florianus is assassinated by its soldiers. Probus announces with the Senate its advent and its tender.

  • August - September: Reign of Florien ( Florianus ), Roman Emperor.

  • Saint Antoine founds in Egypt the first communities of hermits.
  • probable Beginning of an invasion of the empire, in Gaulle, by Germanic bands which plunder the country and go until in Spain. Many cities start to be locked up in walls.

  • Beginning of the reign of Mahâsena with Ceylon (fine in 303). Orthodoxe and unpopular king, it tries to introduce with Ceylon the Bouddhisme Mahayana. It is impossible to determine if there exists a relationship with the adoption of the image of Bouddha in Ceylon, mainly represented upright, as at the time of the dynasty Gupta.
  • Beginning of the reign of Vahram II, King de Perse (fine in 293).

Births in 276

Death in 276

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