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THIRD CENTURY
The 3rd century is the period from 201 - 300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
Overview
Events
Significant persons
- Clement of Alexandria
- Diocletian, Roman emperor
- Diophantus of Alexandria, wrote Arithmetica
- Hippolytus, considered first Antipope
- Liu Hui, Chinese mathematician
- Mani (prophet), founder of Manichaeism
- Origen
- Pappus of Alexandria, Greek mathematician
- Plotinus, founder of Neoplatonism
- Tertullian, sometimes called father of Latin church
- Wang Pi, Taoist
- M. Sattonius Iucundus, restorer of the Thermae in Heerlen
- Zhuge Liang, known as the greatest strategist during the period of the Three Kingdoms
- Lui Bei, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu
- Cao Cao, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Wei
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- A primitive form of glasses were developed for a nearsighted princess in Syria.
- Compass invented in China
Decades and years
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