| Year | Event |
| c. 200 | Compilation of Mahabharata |
| c. 200 | Codification of Mishnah completed |
| 220 | End of Han dynasty in China |
| 224 | Beginning of Sassanid dynasty in Persia |
| 238 | Gothic invasions of Roman Empire |
| 265 | Six Dynasties in China (to 581) |
| 285 | Confucianism reaches Japan |
| 286 | Diocletian divides Empire into West and East |
D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)