217

This article is about the year 217. For other uses, see 217 (number).

Millennium: 1st millennium
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
217 in other calendars 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
Byzantine calendar 5725 – 5726
Chinese calendar 丙申年十二月初六日
(2853/2913-12-6)

— to —

丁酉年十一月十六日
(2854/2914-11-16)
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

Events

By Place

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.

By Topic

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.

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)

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)