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Internal conspiracies and extensive incursions by Germanic …

Years: 273 - 273

Internal conspiracies and extensive incursions by Germanic tribes, together with the increasingly extreme severe monetary inflation that obtains during the third century and now reaches a peak, have prevented the Gallic empire from achieving stability.

Tetricus, having elevated his son, also Tetricus, to the rank of caesar (junior emperor), continues to be threatened by successive mutinies.

Aurelian in late 273 leads an army across the Alps and marches north into Gaul.