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	Establishments – Disestablishments

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	210s 220s 230s – 240s – 250s 260s 270s
Years:	241 242 243 – 244 – 245 246 247

This article is about the year 244. For the number 244, see 244 (number).

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February 11—Emperor Gordian III is killed by his Praetorian Prefect Philip the Arab after Philip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.
Philip the Arab becomes Emperor.
Rome loses Armenia to the Sassanides.
Philip the Arab constructs the city of Shahba, in Syria, the province of his birth.

Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.
244–249 – Philip the Arab, is made. It is now kept at Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome.
244–245 – House-synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, is built. It is reconstructed in the National Museum of Damascus, Damascus, Syria.