Editing 3rd century (section)

==Events==
[[Image:Rome, Italy, The Baths of Caracalla.jpg|thumb|240x240px|The Baths of Caracalla]]

* The [[Kingdom of Funan]] reaches its zenith.
* The [[Goths]] move from [[Gothiscandza]] to [[Ukraine]], giving birth to the [[Chernyakhov culture]].
* ''Menorahs and Ark of the Covenant'', wall painting in a Jewish catacomb, [[Villa Torlonia (Rome)]], are made.
* The [[Coptic period]] begins.
* Siddhartha in the Palace, detail of a relief from [[Nagarjunakonda]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]], is made. Now kept at [[National Museum, New Delhi]].
* Two statuettes, ''Jonah Swallowed and Jonah Cast Up'', of a group from the eastern [[Mediterranean]], probably [[Asia Minor]], are made. Now kept at The [[Cleveland Museum of Art]], [[Ohio]].
* The [[Magerius Mosaic]] is made. Now kept at the [[Sousse Archaeological Museum]], Tunisia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bomgardner |first1=David L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnYjGTh88ZQC&pg=PA211 |title=The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134707393 |page=211 |language=en}}</ref>
* Early 3rd century: Burial in catacombs becomes commonplace.
* [[208]]: the Chinese naval [[Battle of Red Cliffs]] occurs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McNab |first1=Chris |title=Famous Battles of the Ancient World |date=2017 |publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |isbn=9781502632456 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pipmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74|language=en}}</ref>
* [[211]]–[[217]]: [[Caracalla]], Roman Emperor.
* [[212]]: [[Constitutio Antoniniana]] grants [[citizenship]] to all free Roman men.
* [[212]]–[[217]]: [[Baths of Caracalla]].
* [[220]]: The [[Han dynasty]] comes to an end with establishment of the [[Three Kingdoms]] in ancient [[China]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Han dynasty {{!}} Definition, Map, Culture, Art, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Han-dynasty |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[220]]–[[280]]: The [[Three Kingdoms]] period.<ref>{{cite web |title=Three Kingdoms {{!}} ancient kingdoms, China |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Three-Kingdoms-ancient-kingdoms-China |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[222]]–[[235]]: [[Alexander Severus]], [[Roman Emperor]].[[File:Irnp105-Grobowce Naqsh-E Rustam.jpg|thumb|240x240px|Rock relief of [[Ardashir I]] receiving the ring of kingship by the [[Zoroastrian]] supreme god [[Ahura Mazda]].]]
* [[224]]: [[Ardashir I]] of the [[Sassanid dynasty]] conquers the [[Parthian empire]] at the [[Battle of Hormozdgan]].
* [[230]]–[[232]]: [[Sassanid dynasty]] of [[Persia]] launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the [[Byzantine Empire|Roman east]].
* [[234]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] dies of illness at the standoff of [[Battle of Wuzhang Plains|Wuzhang Plains]].
* [[235]]–[[284]]: [[Crisis of the Third Century]] shook the [[Roman Empire]].
* [[241]]: The [[Kingdom of Hatra]] dissolved after the [[Fall of Hatra]] to Persia
* [[244]]: [[Battle of Xingshi]] in China.
* [[258]]: [[Valerian (emperor)|Valerian]]'s massacre of Christians.
* [[260]]: Roman [[Emperor Valerian I]] is taken captive by [[Shapur I]] of [[Persia]].[[File:Three Kingdoms.png|thumb|240x240px|Political map of China in 262 AD]]
* [[263]]: [[Cao Wei]] [[Conquest of Shu by Wei|conquers]] the [[Shu Han]] Kingdom.
* [[266]]: The [[Jin dynasty (265–420)|Jin dynasty]] is founded after the overthrow of the [[Cao Wei]] dynasty by [[Sima Yan]].
* [[280]]: The [[Jin dynasty (265–420)|Jin dynasty]] reunites [[China]] under one empire after the [[Conquest of Eastern Wu by Jin|conquest]] of [[Eastern Wu]].
* [[284]]–[[305]]: [[Diocletian]], [[Roman Emperor]].
* [[291]]–[[306]]: The [[War of the Eight Princes]], a civil war by the Sima Clan in China.
* [[293]]: Emperor Diocletian forms the [[Tetrarchy]] in Rome. 
* [[300]]–[[538]]: [[Kofun era]], the first part of the [[Kofun period]] in [[Japan]].
* Late 3rd century – early 4th century: Good Shepherd, Orants and Story of Jonah, painted ceiling of the [[Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter]] in [[Rome]], is made.