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== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* Emperor [[Aurelian]] launches a two-pronged invasion of the [[Palmyrene Empire]], sending his commander [[Marcus Aurelius Probus]] to restore Roman rule in [[Egypt (Roman province)|Egypt]] while he marches into Asia Minor.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bryce |first=Trevor Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xno9AgAAQBAJ |title=Ancient Syria: a three thousand year history |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-964667-8 |location=Oxford |pages=307}}</ref> 
* As part of a strategy of clemency, Aurelian spares [[Tyana]] after capturing the city. This strategy encourages units under Zenobia to defect to Aurelian.
* [[Battle of Immae]]: Aurelian defeats the Palmyrene heavy cavalry (''[[clibanarii]]'') near [[Antioch]]. Queen [[Zenobia]] flees under cover of darkness to [[Homs|Emesa]] ([[Syria]]).
* Aurelian supports the bishops of Italy in deposing the bishop of Antioch, [[Paul of Samosata]], who had been a supporter of Zenobia. This is the first recorded instance of an imperial intervention in an ecclesiastical dispute.
* [[Battle of Emesa]]: Aurelian decisively defeats the Palmyrene army. 
* Aurelian besieges [[Palmyra]]. Zenobia attempts to escape to [[Sassanid Empire|Persia]] but is captured on the [[Euphrates]]. Palmyra surrenders soon after.
* Following a series of trials held in Emesa, [[Cassius Longinus (philosopher)|Cassius Longinus]] and other advisors of Zenobia are executed for conspiring against Aurelian.

=== By topic ===
==== Religion ====
* [[Dometius of Byzantium|Dometius]] succeeds Titus as [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|Patriarch of Constantinople]].
* [[Saint Denis of Paris|Saint Denis]], first [[Bishop of Paris]], and two of his [[Disciple (Christianity)|disciples]] are beheaded on the road to the Temple of [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]] that stands atop a hill outside of the city. The hill will later be called [[Montmartre]] (Mountain of Martyrs) in [[Lutetia]] (modern [[Paris]]).
* [[Paul of Samosata]] is deposed as [[Patriarch of Antioch]].
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