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Contents

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

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.

★ Death of Empress Julia, wife of Septimus Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta.

★ 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

★ 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 Dynasty