217
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This article is about the year 217. For the number, see 217 (number).
Centuries: | 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century |
Decades: | 180s 190s 200s - 210s - 220s 230s 240s |
Years: | 214 215 216 - 217 - 218 219 220 |
217 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders - Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births - Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Gregorian calendar | 217 CCXVII |
Ab urbe condita | 970 |
Armenian calendar | N/A |
Bahá'í calendar | -1627 – -1626 |
Berber calendar | 1167 |
Buddhist calendar | 761 |
Burmese calendar | -421 |
Chinese calendar | 2853/2913-12-6 (丙申年十二月初六日) — to —
2854/2914-11-16(丁酉年十一月十六日) |
Coptic calendar | -67 – -66 |
Ethiopian calendar | 209 – 210 |
Hebrew calendar | 3977 – 3978 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 272 – 273 |
- Shaka Samvat | 139 – 140 |
- Kali Yuga | 3318 – 3319 |
Holocene calendar | 10217 |
Iranian calendar | 405 BP – 404 BP |
Islamic calendar | 417 BH – 416 BH |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 2550 |
Thai solar calendar | 760 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Roman Empire
- April 8 — Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. Macrinus, of Mauritania, becomes the first equestrian Roman Emperor.
- Rome retains Mesopotamia under a treaty with Parthia.
- Empress Julia, wife of Septimus Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta, dies.
- Fire in the Amphitheater in Rome.
[edit] By Topic
[edit] Religion
- December 20 — The papacy of Pope Zephyrinus ends.
- Pope Callixtus I succeeds Pope Zephyrinus as the sixteenth pope.
- Hippolytus questions the election of the Pope Calixtus and begins his "pontificate" as antipope.
- Ciriacus succeeds Philadelphus as Patriarch of Constantinople.
[edit] Births
- Fu Xuan, Chinese poet
- Hua He, minister under the Kingdom of Wu
- Jia Chong
- Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji
[edit] Deaths
- April 8 — Caracalla, Roman Emperor (assassinated)
- December 20 — Pope Zephyrinus
- Chen Lin, minister of Han Dynasty
- Lu Su, advisor to Sun Quan, sympathetic to Liu Bei
- Wang Can, Chinese poet, scholar, and statesman of Cao Wei
- Sima Lang, official of Han Dynasty