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Year 237 (CCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Perpetuus and Felix (or, less frequently, '*year 990 *Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 237 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

Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns on the rivers Danube and Rhine in Germania, defeating the Alemanni, and never visits Rome. He is accepted by the Roman Senate, but taxes the rich aristocracy heavily, and engenders such hostility among them, that they plot against him. He had a road rebuilt in what is now the Golan Heights, between 236 and 237.

Persia

King Ardashir I of Persia renews his attacks on the Roman province of Mesopotamia.

By topic

Religion

Patriarch Eugenius I succeeds Patriarch Castinus as Patriarch of Constantinople.
Saint Babylas becomes Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

Alexander of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
Guo Huai (or Yuhuang), Chinese noblewoman (d. 296)
Philip II (the Younger), Roman emperor (d. 249)

Deaths

February 7 – Chen Qun, Chinese official and politician
September 22 – Mingdao (or Mao), Chinese empress
Wu Yi (or Ziyuan), Chinese general of the Shu Han state
Zhang (or Jing'ai), Chinese empress of the Shu Han state

References

Borschel-Dan, Amanda. (24 April 2019). "Cryptic Golan milestone found to be monument to low-born Roman emperor’s reign: Discovered in a Moshav Ramot garden, once-indecipherable 1,800-year-old road marker near Sea of Galilee offers proof of the brief 3rd-century rule of Maximinus Thrax". Times of Israel.

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