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Emperor Septimius Severus

Year 211 (CCXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Terentius and Bassus (or, less frequently, year 964 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 211 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Septimius Severus falls ill and dies in Britain after an 18-year reign. He is later deified by the Senate.
• Eboracum (modern York) becomes the capital of Britannia Inferior, a northern province of the Roman Empire.
• February 4 – Caracalla and his brother Geta succeed their father Septimius Severus as joint Roman Emperors.
• December 19 – Geta is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet Caracalla, to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna.
• Caracalla persecutes Geta's supporters and sympathizers, soldiers are allowed to wreak havoc in the streets of Rome. The bloodshed lasts for two weeks, and one contemporary source claims 20,000 people are killed.

Asia

• January – Cao Cao writes Ràng Xiàn Zì Míng Běn Zhì Lìng (讓縣自明本志令)
• Ardashir I becomes king of part of Persia.

By topic

Art

• Baths of Caracalla are started to be built (approximate date).

Religion

• Mark is succeeded by Philadelphus as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• Sima Zhao, son of Sima Yi (d. 264)
• Lady Xiahou Hui (d. 234)

Deaths

• February 4 – Roman emperor Septimius Severus (York, England)
• December 19 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman co-emperor (murdered)
• Serapion of Antioch, patriarch of Antioch
• Cheng Yi
• Li Kan
• Wang Lei, minister under Liu Zhang

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