Cao Cao besieged Yuan Shu, who had withdrawn to Fengqiu; Yuan Shu fled through Xiangyi and Ningling to Jiujiang. (Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) 魏書 武帝紀 (卷01) 初平4년)
Cao Cao campaigned against Tao Qian and took more than ten walls; Tao Qian held his walls and did not come out. (Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) 魏書 武帝紀 (卷01) 初平4년)
Yuan Shao besieged Yu Du at Lüzhang Mountain near Zhaoge, broke him in five days, and beheaded Yu Du and more than ten thousand of his followers. Then, following the mountain northward, he defeated Zuo Ci and others in turn. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷060 (원문 단락 #4977, 193년))
West Asia (10)
War began between Severus and Niger; Niger advanced from Byzantium to Perinthus but, after ill omens, returned to Byzantium (Cassius Dio, Roman History 75(74).6.3)
Byzantium held out for three years against the armies of the world with ingenious defenses, such as divers cutting anchor cables and towing off enemy ships (Cassius Dio, Roman History 75(74).12.1)
Severus kills Pescennius Niger, who revolted in Egypt and Syria, at Cyzicus. (Eutropius, Breviarium Eutr. 8.18)
Niger, governor of Syria, accepts the throne at Antioch at the citizens' request and holds an accession ceremony of purple robe and fire carried before him around the temples. (Herodian, History of the Empire 2.8)
Aemilianus, governor of Asia sent by Niger, and Severus's troops clash repeatedly at Cyzicus. Severus's forces win. (Herodian, History of the Empire 3.2)
In Bithynia, Nicomedia sides with Severus and Nicaea with Niger, and each city sends out forces to fight. Severus's army wins again. (Herodian, History of the Empire 3.2)
Byzantium, which had sided with Niger, surrenders after a long siege. Its walls and ornaments are torn down, it is reduced to an open village, and its people are made subject to Perinthus. (Herodian, History of the Empire 3.6)
Niger, who already holds Byzantium, moves against the legion Severus sent to occupy Greece and Thrace, aiming at Perinthus, and kills many (Historia Augusta Sev. 8.12, 8.13)
In Syria the army acclaims Pescennius Niger imperator (said to be out of hostility toward Julianus) (Historia Augusta Pesc. 2.1)
When Severus is chosen emperor, Niger and Albinus oppose him and civil war breaks out. The people of Byzantium, who had taken Niger in, side with him and endure danger until Niger is defeated and killed. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 1 (1814 영역) p.9)
Southern Europe (39)
Severus, in Syria, is raised to emperor and strikes Julianus at the Milvian Bridge near Rome. (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus Aur. Vict. Caes. 19.4)
Pertinax secretly went to the praetorian camp, promised each man 12,000 sesterces, and that night declared in the Senate "the soldiers call me emperor, but I will resign"; the Senate sincerely acclaimed him (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).1)
Pertinax was declared emperor and Commodus a public enemy; the mob that tried to tear up his body, told he was already buried, only mutilated his statues (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).2)
The treasury held only one million sesterces; Pertinax sold Commodus's ancestral items, weapons, furniture and favorites to pay the praetorians the promised sum and gave each citizen 100 denarii (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).5)
The praetorians and Laetus plotted to make the consul Falco emperor; Pertinax returned from inspecting the grain supply, informed the Senate and spared Falco's life (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).8)
200 soldiers burst into the palace; Pertinax went out to persuade them and was killed, and only Eclectus fought and died beside him (nearly 67 years old, reign of 87 days) (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).10)
An auction of the empire before the praetorian camp: Julianus offered 25,000 sesterces per man, outbid Sulpicianus and was accepted as emperor (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).11)
At the circus the crowd denounced Julianus day and night and cried out to Niger in Syria for deliverance (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).13.5)
Three commanders, Severus (Pannonia), Niger (Syria) and Albinus (Britain), each with three legions, vied for supremacy; at Julianus's sacrifice three stars appeared around the sun as an omen (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).14.3)
Severus conciliated Albinus by sending him the title of Caesar and, holding Europe except Byzantium, marched on Rome, keeping 600 picked men at his side day and night (Cassius Dio, Roman History 74(73).15)