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Year '''233''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CCXXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Claudius and Paternus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 986 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 233 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.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* Emperor [[Alexander Severus]] celebrates a [[Roman triumph|triumph]] in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] to observe his "victory" the previous year over the [[Sasanian Empire|Persians]] (in reality, [[Severus Alexander]] advanced towards Ctesiphon in 233, but as corroborated by [[Herodian]], his armies suffered a humiliating defeat against [[Ardashir I]]).   He is soon summoned to the [[Rhine]] frontier, where the [[Alamanni]] invade what is now modern-day [[Swabia]]. [[Germanic peoples|German tribes]] destroy Roman [[castra|forts]], and plunder the countryside at the ''[[Limes Germanicus]]''.
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== Births ==
* [[Chen Shou]], Chinese historian and writer of the ''[[Records of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (d. [[297]])

== Deaths ==
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Cao Rui (Prince of Beihai)|Cao Rui]], Chinese imperial prince of the [[Cao Wei]] state
* [[Liu Ji (Three Kingdoms)|Liu Ji]], Chinese official and politician of the [[Eastern Wu]] state (b. [[185]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Crespigny |first=Rafe |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |isbn=9789047411840 |location=Netherlands |publication-date=December 2006 |pages=519}}</ref>
* [[Yu Fan]], Chinese official and politician of the Eastern Wu state (b. [[164]])

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