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| 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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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)