Pompey

Events

Fine of the first war of the Goths: the emperor Claude II, known as the Gothic beats the Goths with the Bataille of Naissus (or 268).

Powerful pushed Germanic people on the Balkans: Goths, Gépides, Hérules, Bastarnes. The Goths cross the Dniestr then the the Danube, invade the Greece, plunder Athens, Corinthe and Sparte then besieges Thessalonique. Claude II walk against them. They give up the seat of the city. Aurélien receives the command as a chief of the Roman cavalry. Placed on the left blank of the Goths, it them pack in the area of Doberos in Pélagonie and kills 3000 men to them. Claude II gains a decisive victory against them with Naissus (Niš) in Serbia. Aurélien continues them, making them undergo heavy losses. It closes to them the way of the Macedonia and rejects them into Haemus.

In Gaulle, rebellion of Laelianus against Postumus. Laelianus is overcome, but Postumus is killed by its troops with which it had refused the bag of Mainz, city where the rebels had withdrawn themselves. It is replaced by Marius, another usurper who reigns a few weeks before being assassinated. Victorinus, indicated by Postumus seizes the power then (fine in 271). It loses the control of the Spain and the Lyons Gaulle which join with Claude II.
Seat of Autun by the Batavian . The city is devastated.
Appearance of the Bagaudes in Gaulle (country revolted).

the queen Zénobie of Palmyre seizes the Egypt and part of the Arabia.
the library of Alexandria is burnt during the raid of Zabdas, general of Zénobie of Palmyre.
Paul de Samosate, bishop of Antioche, is condemned by the council of Antioche like heretic.

February 14th: Valentine de Terni, carried out in Rome on order of Claude II the Gothic (traditional date).

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