217

This article is about the year 217. For the number, 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
Assyrian calendar	4967
Bengali calendar	−376
Berber calendar	1167
Buddhist calendar	761
Burmese calendar	−421
Byzantine calendar	5725–5726
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2913 or 2853     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 2914 or 2854
Coptic calendar	−67 – −66
Discordian calendar	1383
Ethiopian calendar	209–210
Hebrew calendar	3977–3978
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	273–274
- Shaka Samvat	139–140
- Kali Yuga	3318–3319
Holocene calendar	10217
Iranian calendar	405 BP – 404 BP
Islamic calendar	417 BH – 416 BH
Julian calendar	217 CCXVII
Korean calendar	2550
Minguo calendar	1695 before ROC 民前1695年
Seleucid era	528/529 AG
Thai solar calendar	759–760

Year 217 (CCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Praesens and Extricatus (or, less frequently, year 970 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 217 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• April 8 – Caracalla is assassinated by his soldiers near Edessa. Marcus Opellius Macrinus head of the Praetorian Guard, declares himself Roman emperor.
• Summer – Battle of Nisibis: A Roman army under command of Macrinus, is defeated in a three days battle by the Parthians at Nisibis in the province of Mesopotamia.
• King Artabanus V signs a peace treaty with Rome after he received 200 million sesterces, for the rebuilding of towns destroyed during the war in Parthia.
• Macrinus, of Mauritania, becomes the first equestrian Roman emperor.
• Empress Julia, wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta, commits suicide.
• The Colosseum is badly damaged by fire (lightning) which destroys the wooden upper levels of the amphitheater.

By topic

Religion

• December 20 – The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.
• Hippolytus begins his "pontificate" as antipope and sets up a breakaway church for Christian followers.
• 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, general of the Jin Dynasty (d. 282)
• Wang Yuanji, wife of Sima Zhao (d. 268)

Deaths

• April 8 – Caracalla, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 188)
• December 20 – Pope Zephyrinus
• Julia Domna, Roman Empress (suicide) (b. 170)
• 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)