General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Deaths: Emperor Claudius II
Europe
- General: Marcomanni advances from Bohemia across the Danube
- Britain: Chain of forts built forming "Saxon Shore"
- Greece: Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
- Roman Empire: Death of Emperor Claudius II - Emperor Aurelian "restitutor orbis" appointed