237

This article is about the year 237. For the number, see237 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	210s 220s 230s 240s 250s
Years:	234 235 236 237 238 239 240

237 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	237 CCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	990
Assyrian calendar	4987
Balinese saka calendar	158–159
Bengali calendar	−356
Berber calendar	1187
Buddhist calendar	781
Burmese calendar	−401
Byzantine calendar	5745–5746
Chinese calendar	Bính thầnNăm (FireDragon) 2934 or 2727 — to — Đinh Tị năm (FireSnake) 2935 or 2728
Coptic calendar	−47 – −46
Discordian calendar	1403
Ethiopian calendar	229–230
Hebrew calendar	3997–3998
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	293–294
-Shaka Samvat	158–159
-Kali Yuga	3337–3338
Holocene calendar	10237
Iranian calendar	385 BP – 384 BP
Islamic calendar	397 BH – 396 BH
Javanese calendar	115–116
Julian calendar	237 CCXXXVII
Korean calendar	2570
Minguo calendar	1675 beforeROC Dân trước 1675 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	−1231
Seleucid era	548/549AG
Thai solar calendar	779–780
Tibetan calendar	Dương hỏa long năm (male Fire-Dragon) 363 or −18 or −790 — to — Âm hỏa xà năm (female Fire-Snake) 364 or −17 or −789

Year237(CCXXXVII) was acommon year starting on Sunday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.At the time, it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Perpetuus and Felix(or, less frequently,year 990Ab urbe condita). The denomination 237 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar erabecame the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• EmperorMaximinus Thraxcampaigns on the riversDanubeandRhineinGermania,defeating theAlemanni,and never visitsRome.He is accepted by theRoman Senate,but taxes the richaristocracyheavily, and engenders such hostility among them, that theyplotagainst him.

Persia

• KingArdashir I of Persiarenews his attacks on the Roman province ofMesopotamia.

By topic

Religion

• Patriarch Eugenius IsucceedsPatriarch CastinusasPatriarch of Constantinople.
• Saint BabylasbecomesPatriarch of Antioch.

Births

• Alexander of Constantinople,patriarch ofConstantinople
• Guo Huai(orYuhuang), Chinese noblewoman (d.296)
• Philip II(the Younger), Roman emperor (d.249)

Deaths

• February 7–Chen Qun,Chinese official and politician
• September 22–Mingdao(orMao), Chinese empress
• Wu Yi(orZiyuan), Chinese general of theShu Hanstate
• Zhang(orJing'ai), Chinese empress of the Shu Han state