254

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	220s  230s  240s  – 250s –  260s  270s  280s
Years:	251 252 253 – 254 – 255 256 257

254 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

254 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	254 CCLIV
Ab urbe condita	1007
Assyrian calendar	5004
Bengali calendar	−339
Berber calendar	1204
Buddhist calendar	798
Burmese calendar	−384
Byzantine calendar	5762–5763
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2950 or 2890     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2951 or 2891
Coptic calendar	−30 – −29
Discordian calendar	1420
Ethiopian calendar	246–247
Hebrew calendar	4014–4015
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	310–311
- Shaka Samvat	176–177
- Kali Yuga	3355–3356
Holocene calendar	10254
Iranian calendar	368 BP – 367 BP
Islamic calendar	379 BH – 378 BH
Julian calendar	254 CCLIV
Korean calendar	2587
Minguo calendar	1658 before ROC 民前1658年
Seleucid era	565/566 AG
Thai solar calendar	796–797

Empress Egnatia Mariniana

Year 254 (CCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerianus and Gallienus (or, less frequently, year 1007 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 254 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

• Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus and Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus become Roman Consuls.
• The Roman Empire is threatened by several peoples on their borders. The Germanic confederations, such as the Franks on the Middle Rhine, the Alemanni on the upper Rhine and Danube. The Marcomanni facing the provinces at Noricum and Raetia. On land the confederation of Goths threathen the lower Danube provinces and on the sea they threaten the shores of Thracia, Bithynia et Pontus, Cappadocia. In the eastern provinces, the Sassanid Persians had the previous year defeated a Roman field army at Barballisos and afterwards plundered the defenseless provinces. This was the period of time which today is called the crisis of the third century.

By topic

Religion

• May 12 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.

Births

Deaths

• Li Feng, Chinese official
• Xiahou Xuan, minister of Wei and son of Xiahou Shang (b. 209)
• Zhang Ni, general of Shu Han

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