243

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	210s  220s  230s  – 240s –  250s  260s  270s
Years:	240 241 242 – 243 – 244 245 246

243 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	243 CCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	996
Assyrian calendar	4993
Balinese saka calendar	164–165
Bengali calendar	−350
Berber calendar	1193
Buddhist calendar	787
Burmese calendar	−395
Byzantine calendar	5751–5752
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2939 or 2879     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2940 or 2880
Coptic calendar	−41 – −40
Discordian calendar	1409
Ethiopian calendar	235–236
Hebrew calendar	4003–4004
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	299–300
- Shaka Samvat	164–165
- Kali Yuga	3343–3344
Holocene calendar	10243
Iranian calendar	379 BP – 378 BP
Islamic calendar	391 BH – 390 BH
Javanese calendar	121–122
Julian calendar	243 CCXLIII
Korean calendar	2576
Minguo calendar	1669 before ROC 民前1669年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1225
Seleucid era	554/555 AG
Thai solar calendar	785–786
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 369 or −12 or −784     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 370 or −11 or −783

Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena (Syria). King Shapur I must run away to the Euphrates.
• Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I goes back to Persia.
• Emperor Gordian III picks Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect.

Births

• Sun Liang, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (d. 260)

Deaths

• Gu Yong, minister of Wu (b. 168)
• Kan Ze, advisor of Wu
• Timesitheus, advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)