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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 (d. 278)
* Hua He, minister under the Kingdom of Wu (d. 279)
* Jia Chong (d. 282)
* Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji (d. 268)

Deaths

* April 8 — Caracalla, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 188)
* 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)