Decades: 200s 210s 220s 230s 240s - 250s - 260s 270s 280s 290s 300s

Years: 247 248 249 250 251 - 252 - 253 254 255 256 257

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• Sun Liang succeeds Sun Quan as king of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu.
• Pope Cornelius is imprisoned by Roman emperor Trebonianus Gallus.
• Valerian recreated Legio III Augusta to fight the Berbers.

Deaths

• Sun Quan, Chinese warlord and founder of the Kingdom of Wu