Years: 259 260 261 262 - 263 - 264 265 266 267

Decades: 230s 240s 250s - 260s - 270s 280s 290s

Centuries: 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century

Events

• The Kingdom of Wei conquered the kingdom of Shu Han, one of the Chinese Three Kingdoms.
• Liu Hui writes a commentary on The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, describing what would later be called Gaussian elimination, computing pi, etc.

Births

Deaths

• Jiang Wei, Shu general
• Liao Hua, Chinese military and political leader