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
• Hua He, minister under the Kingdom of Wu
• Jia Chong
• Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji

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 Dynastyaf:217

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