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Year '''273''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CCLXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Tacitus and Placidianus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 1026 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 273 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moreton |first=Jennifer |date=March 2002 |title=Georges Declercq. ''Anno Domini: The Origins of the Christian Era''. 206 pp., app., bibl.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2000. $35, €20. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/343276 |journal=Isis |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=105–106 |doi=10.1086/343276 |issn=0021-1753}}</ref> The year also saw most lost territories to rebellion returned to the Roman Empire by Emperor [[Aurelian]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schulman |first=Jeffrey E. |date=2017 |title=(A)rising in the East: The Case for a Palmyrene Sol Invictus |url=https://www.academia.edu/33098017 |journal=Plebeian |volume=3 |pages=52–58}}</ref>

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Marcus Claudius Tacitus]], future [[Roman Emperor]], is [[consul]] in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]].
* Emperor [[Aurelian]] defeats an incursion by the [[Carpi (people)|Carpi]] into Moesia and Thrace. 
* Aurelian sacks the city of [[Palmyra]], after putting down a second [[revolt]].
* In bitter street-fighting, Aurelian crushes a rebellion in [[Alexandria]] by [[Firmus]], a sympathizer of Palmyra. Firmus is strangled to death.

==== Persia ====
* King [[Hormizd I]] of [[Sassanid Empire|Persia]] dies after a brief reign in which he has shown tolerance toward the [[Asceticism|ascetic]], anti-materialist [[Manichaeism|Manichean]] faith. He is succeeded by his brother [[Bahram I]], who has been governing the province of [[Atropatene]]. Bahram proceeds to crush a rebellion by various vassal kings.
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== Births ==

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== Deaths ==
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Reverianus]], Christian bishop
* [[Callinicus (sophist)|Callinicus]], Greek historian and [[sophist]]
* [[Cassius Longinus (philosopher)|Cassius Longinus]], Greek philosopher
* [[Dexippus]], Greek general and [[historian]]
* [[Hormizd I]], king of the [[Sasanian Empire|Sassanid Empire]]
* [[Septimius Antiochus]], Roman [[usurper]]
* [[Wei Zhao (Three Kingdoms)|Wei Zhao]], Chinese historian and scholar (b. [[204]])

== References ==
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