217

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	མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་; (male Fire-Monkey); 343 or −38 or −810; — to —; མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་; (female Fire-Bird); 344 or −37 or −809

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

Events

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.

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.

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	མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 343 or −38 or −810 — to — མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 344 or −37 or −809

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