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NOTOC Year 235 (CCXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Quintianus (or, less frequently, '*year 988 *Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 235 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

• March 22 – Emperor Severus Alexander and his mother Iulia Mamaea are murdered by their own soldiers. The soldiers proclaim Maximinus Thrax as emperor. The Severan dynasty ends, marking the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century.

By topic

Religion

• September 28 – Pope Pontian resigns, the first to abdicate, because he and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia. Emperor Maximinus persecutes the Christians.
• November 21 – Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope of Rome.

Births

• Sun Xiu, Chinese emperor of the Eastern Wu state (d. 264)

Deaths

• March 22 – Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (b. 208)
• Cao Gun, Chinese imperial prince
• Cassius Dio, Roman historian
• Chen Zhen (or Xiaoqi), Chinese official and politician
• Gaius Petronius Magnus, Roman consul and usurper
• Guo Nüwang, Chinese empress
• Hippolytus, Christian theologian and writer (b. 170)
• Julia Avita Mamaea, mother of Severus Alexander (b. 180)
• Tiberius Julius Cotys III (or Kotys), Roman client king
• Tiberius Julius Rhescuporis IV, Roman client king
• Titius Quartinus, Roman governor and usurper
• Xin Pi (or Zuozhi), Chinese official and politician
• Yang Yi (or Weigong), Chinese official and adviser

References

References

1. (1 January 2004). "Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture". [[Brill Publishers]].
2. Kirsch, Johann Peter (1911). "Pope St. Pontian" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
3. Shahan, Thomas (1907). "Pope St. Anterus" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
4. Xiong, Victor Cunrui. (2009). "Historical Dictionary of Medieval China". Rowman & Littlefield.
5. [[Rafe de Crespigny]]. (2006). "A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms". Brill.
6. (January 1, 2024). "Cassius Dio".
7. (2010). "Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature". BRILL.
8. "Maximinus Thrax".

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