6 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
Southern Europe (5)
Aurelian builds a temple of the Sun in Rome and adorns it with gifts, and surrounds the city with a strong wall of wide circuit. (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus Aur. Vict. Caes. 35.7)
Aurelian enters Rome and celebrates a triumph as the recoverer of East and West, with Tetricus and Zenobia walking before his chariot. (Eutropius, Breviarium Eutr. 9.13)
Aurelian drags the senator and consular Tetricus along in his triumphal procession with Zenobia, but soon makes him corrector of Italy (Historia Augusta Tyr. trig. 24.4)
Triumph over East and West: the chariots of Odaenathus, the Persian king and Zenobia, 20 elephants, Gothic women said to be Amazons, Tetricus and his son in red cloaks, and Zenobia in golden chains march in the procession (Historia Augusta Aurel. 33.2, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3)
Aurelian holds a triumph in Rome and builds a temple of the Sun with spoils taken from Palmyra, setting up statues of the Sun and Belus. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 1 (1814 영역) p.30)
Western Europe (1)
Aurelian defeats Tetricus at Catalaunum in Gaul. Unable to bear his army's mutiny, Tetricus himself hands over his army and begs rescue with a line of Virgil. (Eutropius, Breviarium Eutr. 9.13)