275

This article is about the year 275. For the number, see 275 (number).

Year 275 (CCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelianus and Marcellinus (or, less frequently, year 1028 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 275 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	250s 260s 270s 280s 290s
Years:	272 273 274 275 276 277 278

275 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	275 CCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1028
Assyrian calendar	5025
Balinese saka calendar	196–197
Bengali calendar	−318
Berber calendar	1225
Buddhist calendar	819
Burmese calendar	−363
Byzantine calendar	5783–5784
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2972 or 2765     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2973 or 2766
Coptic calendar	−9 – −8
Discordian calendar	1441
Ethiopian calendar	267–268
Hebrew calendar	4035–4036
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	331–332
- Shaka Samvat	196–197
- Kali Yuga	3375–3376
Holocene calendar	10275
Iranian calendar	347 BP – 346 BP
Islamic calendar	358 BH – 357 BH
Javanese calendar	154–155
Julian calendar	275 CCLXXV
Korean calendar	2608
Minguo calendar	1637 before ROC 民前1637年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1193
Seleucid era	586/587 AG
Thai solar calendar	817–818
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 401 or 20 or −752     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 402 or 21 or −751

Emperor Tacitus (c. 200–276)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Aurelian puts down unrest in Gaul, and defeats Germanic incursions into Gaul and Raetia (these problems had been caused by Aurelian's defeat and overthrow of the Gallic Empire).
• The Goths begin to raid Thrace and Asia Minor. Aurelian begins a campaign against the Goths in Thrace.
• Aurelian is assassinated near Byzantium (Turkey). Aurelian had developed a reputation for punishing corruption with severity, and his secretary Eros was under suspicion. As a result, Eros, fearing for his life, had forged a list of high-ranking officers marked for execution. In this way, the secretary tricked the officers into assassinating Aurelian, and they then fled into Asia Minor to avoid the wrath of the soldiers. Unusually for the period, the imperial field army defers to the Senate to choose a successor.
• September 25 – Marcus Claudius Tacitus is proclaimed Emperor by the Senate; his half brother Marcus Annius Florianus becomes praetorian prefect.
• Tacitus marches into Asia Minor to fight the Goths and track down the faction responsible for assassinating Aurelian.

Asia

• The Pallava Dynasty begins in Southern India.

By topic

Religion

• January 4 – Eutychian succeeds Felix I as the 27th pope of Rome.

Births

• Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr (approximate date)

Deaths

• Aurelian, Roman emperor (b. 214 or 215)
• Peroz I Kushanshah, ruler of the Sasanian Kingdom
• Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (b. 240)