271

year

Year 271 (CCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:1st millennium
Centuries:2nd century3rd century4th century
Decades: 240s  250s  260s  – 270s –  280s  290s  300s
Years:268 269 270271272 273 274
271 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar271
CCLXXI
Ab urbe condita1024
Assyrian calendar5021
Balinese saka calendar192–193
Bengali calendar−322
Berber calendar1221
Buddhist calendar815
Burmese calendar−367
Byzantine calendar5779–5780
Chinese calendar庚寅(Metal Tiger)
2967 or 2907
    — to —
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
2968 or 2908
Coptic calendar−13 – −12
Discordian calendar1437
Ethiopian calendar263–264
Hebrew calendar4031–4032
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat327–328
 - Shaka Samvat192–193
 - Kali Yuga3371–3372
Holocene calendar10271
Iranian calendar351 BP – 350 BP
Islamic calendar362 BH – 361 BH
Javanese calendar150–151
Julian calendar271
CCLXXI
Korean calendar2604
Minguo calendar1641 before ROC
民前1641年
Nanakshahi calendar−1197
Seleucid era582/583 AG
Thai solar calendar813–814
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
397 or 16 or −756
    — to —
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
398 or 17 or −755
Roman Empire (271)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

  • Emperor Aurelian pushes the Vandals back from Pannonia.
  • January
  • Battle of Pavia: The Roman army chase after the Alamanni in Lombardy.
  • Felicissimus leads an uprising against Aurelian. He is defeated and killed on the Caelian Hill.
  • Aurelian begins to build a new defensive wall to protect Rome.

Europe

  • Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire, is killed by Attitianus. Domitianus is Emperor for a few days before being replaced by Tetricus I.

Syria

  • Zenobia makes herself to be Empress. She breaks all relations with the Roman Empire.
  • Zenobia gives her son Vaballathus the title of Augustus.

By topic

Arts and sciences

  • King Shapur I builds the Academy of Gundishapur (Iran).
  • A magnetic compass is first used in China.

Births

  • Sima Wei, prince during the Jin Dynasty (d. 291)

Deaths

  • Ding Feng, general of the Kingdom of Wu
  • Domitianus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire
  • Felicissimus, Roman financial minister (rationalis)
  • Liu Shan, last Emperor of the Kingdom of Shu (b. 207)
  • Pei Xiu, minister and cartographer of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 224)
  • Sima Wang, general of the Jin Dynasty (b. 205)
  • Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire