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255 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 255
CCLV
Ab urbe condita 1008
Assyrian calendar 5005
Balinese saka calendar 176–177
Bengali calendar −338
Berber calendar 1205
Buddhist calendar 799
Burmese calendar −383
Byzantine calendar 5763–5764
Chinese calendar 甲戌年 (Wood  Dog)
2952 or 2745
     to 
乙亥年 (Wood  Pig)
2953 or 2746
Coptic calendar −29 – −28
Discordian calendar 1421
Ethiopian calendar 247–248
Hebrew calendar 4015–4016
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 311–312
 - Shaka Samvat 176–177
 - Kali Yuga 3355–3356
Holocene calendar 10255
Iranian calendar 367 BP – 366 BP
Islamic calendar 378 BH – 377 BH
Javanese calendar 134–135
Julian calendar 255
CCLV
Korean calendar 2588
Minguo calendar 1657 before ROC
民前1657年
Nanakshahi calendar −1213
Seleucid era 566/567 AG
Thai solar calendar 797–798
Tibetan calendar 阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
381 or 0 or −772
     to 
阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
382 or 1 or −771

Year 255 ( CCLV ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Valerianus and Gallienus (or, less frequently, year 1008 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 255 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.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin's Rebellion</span> Uprising by Cao Wei generals Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin against regent Sima Shi (255)

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References

  1. Declercq, Dominik (1998). Writing against the state: political rhetorics in third and fourth century China. Leiden. p. 123. ISBN   9004103767.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)