Climate & Environment in the 3rd century

9 sourced entries, 200 CE to 266 CE, oldest first. Also see Climate & Environment across every century or everything else in the 3rd century.

• 200The Paracas culture in the Andes ends (around this year).source
• 201November – A flood in Edessa destroys a Christian church, killing over 2,000 people.source
• 204The Daysan River floods Edessa.source
• 220Great frost in Roman Britain is said to have lasted for five months.source
• 238Maximinus advances to the town Aquileia in northern Italy; his army suffers from famine and disease, while the city is besieged. Soldiers of Legio II Parthica kill him in his tent, along with his son Maximinus (who is appointed co-emperor). Their corpses are decapitated and their heads carried to Rome.source
• 245In Britain, many thousands of acres of modern-day Lincolnshire are inundated by a great flood.source
• 257In Bavaria the Limes Germanicus (Upper Raetian Limes) along the river Iller is abandoned by the Romans.source
• 262An earthquake strikes Ephesus and Pergamon and another strikes Cyrene.source
• 266A powerful tropical volcanic eruption around this year brings a below-average flood of the Nile next year.source