217
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This article is about the year 217. For other uses, 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 (d. 278)
- Hua He, minister under the Kingdom of Wu (d. 279)
- Jia Chong (d. 282)
- Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji (d. 268)
[edit] Deaths
- April 8 — Caracalla, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 188)
- December 20 — Pope Zephyrinus
- Chen Lin, minister of Han Dynasty
- Lu Su, advisor to Sun Quan, sympathetic to Liu Bei (b. 172)
- Wang Can, Chinese poet, scholar, and statesman of Cao Wei (b. 177)
- Sima Lang, official of Han Dynasty (b. 171)
