217

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	217 CCXVII
Ab urbe condita	970
Assyrian calendar	4967
Balinese saka calendar	138–139
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	138–139
- Kali Yuga	3317–3318
Holocene calendar	10217
Iranian calendar	405 BP – 404 BP
Islamic calendar	417 BH – 416 BH
Javanese calendar	94–95
Julian calendar	217 CCXVII
Korean calendar	2550
Minguo calendar	1695 before ROC 民前1695年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1251
Seleucid era	528/529 AG
Thai solar calendar	759–760
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 343 or −38 or −810     — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 344 or −37 or −809

217 (CCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• April 8 – Caracalla is killed by his legionaries near Edessa. Marcus Opellius Macrinus head of the Praetorian Guard, calls himself Roman emperor.
• Summer – Battle of Nisibis: The Roman army is defeated in a three days battle by the Parthians at Nisibis (southern Turkey).
• King Artabanus IV signs a peace treaty with Rome.
• Macrinus, of Mauritania, becomes the first equestrian Roman emperor.
• Empress Julia kills herself.
• The Colosseum is badly damaged by fire. It 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. Hippolytus says he should not be Pope.
• Hippolytus 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, general of the Jin Dynasty (d. 282)
• Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji, wife of Sima Zhao (d. 268)

Deaths

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