23 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (15)
Li Jue coerced Emperor Xian and moved him to his own camp, burned the palaces; in the fourth month Li Jue moved the emperor to Beiwu. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷9 孝獻帝紀 興平2年)
In the seventh month the carriage of Emperor Xian began its return eastward, escorted by Guo Si, Yang Ding, Yang Feng and Dong Cheng. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷9 孝獻帝紀 興平2年)
Li Jue and Guo Si pursued the imperial carriage at Dongjian and Wang Si was defeated; Guanglu Xun and many others died. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷9 孝獻帝紀 興平2年)
Emperor Xian camped at Caoyang; Yang Feng, Dong Cheng and Bai Poshuai fought Li Jue and won, but afterwards they were crushingly defeated again, and the emperor crossed the Yellow River at night from an islet and arrived at Anyi. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷9 孝獻帝紀 興平2年)
At Juye Cao Cao routed and beheaded Lü Bu's generals Xue Lan and Li Feng, and drove Lü Bu into retreat. (Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) 魏書 武帝紀 (卷01) 興平2년)
Yongqiu, which he had besieged from the eighth month, fell in the twelfth month; Zhang Chao committed suicide, and the three generations of Zhang Miao's family were destroyed. (Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) 魏書 武帝紀 (卷01) 興平2년)
As Chang'an fell into chaos, the emperor moved east, was defeated at Caoyang, crossed the Yellow River, and reached Anyi. (Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) 魏書 武帝紀 (卷01) 興平2년)
With Yuan Shu's help, Sun Ce set out to pacify Jiangdong, and when he reached Liyang he had five to six thousand troops. (Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) 吳書 孫破虜討逆傳 (卷46) 興平2년)
Starving Byzantines fled by ship during a storm, but the Roman fleet slaughtered them at sea; the sea was covered with corpses and wreckage (Cassius Dio, Roman History 75(74).13.2)
Severus camped at Nisibis and sent generals to plunder the lands of Osrhoene, Adiabene and the Arabs (Cassius Dio, Roman History 75(75).2.3)
Severus gave Nisibis a new status and put an equestrian governor in charge; he boasted of adding a bulwark for Syria, but Dio criticized it as the cause of endless wars (Cassius Dio, Roman History 75(75).3.2)
Southern Europe (5)
Severus crossed the Euphrates into enemy land and nearly lost his soldiers to thirst and dust storms, but raised morale by drinking water himself (Cassius Dio, Roman History 75(75).2.1)
Severus defeats Parthia, inland Arabia and Adiabene, makes Arabia a province, and takes the titles Parthicus, Arabicus and Adiabenicus. (Eutropius, Breviarium Eutr. 8.18)
With no pretext to attack Albinus in open war, Severus tries to eliminate him secretly. (Herodian, History of the Empire 3.5)
Campaigning in Arabia, he brings Parthia and Adiabene, which had backed Niger, back under control (Historia Augusta Sev. 9.9)
Returning from the Niger affair, Severus hears that Clodius Albinus has revolted in Gaul; several of Albinus's men surrender or are arrested (Historia Augusta Sev. 10.1, 10.8)