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| Gregorian calendar | 243 CCXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 996 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4993 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 164–165 |
| Bengali calendar | −350 |
| Berber calendar | 1193 |
| Buddhist calendar | 787 |
| Burmese calendar | −395 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5751–5752 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2939 or 2879 — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2940 or 2880 |
| Coptic calendar | −41 – −40 |
| Discordian calendar | 1409 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 235–236 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4003–4004 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 299–300 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 164–165 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3343–3344 |
| Holocene calendar | 10243 |
| Iranian calendar | 379 BP – 378 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 391 BH – 390 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 121–122 |
| Julian calendar | 243 CCXLIII |
| Korean calendar | 2576 |
| Minguo calendar | 1669 before ROC 民前1669年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1225 |
| Seleucid era | 554/555 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 785–786 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 369 or −12 or −784 — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 370 or −11 or −783 |
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Year 243 (CCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena (Syria). King Shapur I must run away to the Euphrates.
- Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I goes back to Persia.
- Emperor Gordian III picks Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect.
Births
- Sun Liang, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu (d. 260)
Deaths
- Gu Yong, minister of Wu (b. 168)
- Kan Ze, advisor of Wu
- Timesitheus, advisor and praetorian prefect (b. 190)