5 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (2)
Liu Yuanhai attacked Pingyang; the Governor Song Chou fled, and the Henan Governor Lu Shu died in battle. (Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals 晉書 卷005 帝紀 永嘉2年7月)
In Carthage the soldiers block the circulation of Maxentius's portrait, and finally dress the elderly praetorian prefect Alexander, a Phrygian, in purple and make him emperor. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.42)
Southern Europe (1)
Galerius makes his old friend Licinius Augustus, entrusting him with the defense of Illyricum and Thrace, and goes to Rome. (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus Aur. Vict. Caes. 40.8)
Western Europe (1)
Maximian Herculius visits Diocletian, living at Carnuntum in Gallia Celtica, and urges him to return to the throne, but is refused. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.41)