211

This article is about the year 211. For the number, see 211 (number). For the N11 code (a phone number), see 2-1-1. For the higher education development program in China, see Project 211. For other uses, see 211 (disambiguation).

Year 211 (CCXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, in the Roman Empire 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.

211 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	211 CCXI
Ab urbe condita	964
Assyrian calendar	4961
Balinese saka calendar	132–133
Bengali calendar	−383 – −382
Berber calendar	1161
Buddhist calendar	755
Burmese calendar	−427
Byzantine calendar	5719–5720
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 2908 or 2701     — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2909 or 2702
Coptic calendar	−73 – −72
Discordian calendar	1377
Ethiopian calendar	203–204
Hebrew calendar	3971–3972
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	267–268
- Shaka Samvat	132–133
- Kali Yuga	3311–3312
Holocene calendar	10211
Iranian calendar	411 BP – 410 BP
Islamic calendar	424 BH – 423 BH
Javanese calendar	88–89
Julian calendar	211 CCXI
Korean calendar	2544
Minguo calendar	1701 before ROC 民前1701年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1257
Seleucid era	522/523 AG
Thai solar calendar	753–754
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 337 or −44 or −816     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 338 or −43 or −815

Emperor Septimius Severus (145–211)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• February 4 – Emperor Septimius Severus, having fallen ill, dies in Eboracum (modern-day York) while on campaign in Britain after an 18-year reign. He is later deified by the Senate. His sons Caracalla and Geta succeed him 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.
• Eboracum becomes the capital of Britannia Inferior, a northern province of the Roman Empire.

China

• January – Warlord Cao Cao writes Ràng Xiàn Zì Míng Běn Zhì Lìng (讓縣自明本志令)
• March – September: Battle of Tong Pass: Cao Cao defeats Ma Chao.

Parthia

• Ardashir I becomes king of part of Persia.

By topic

Art

• Baths of Caracalla construction begins (approximate date).

Religion

• Marcus I is succeeded by Philadelphus, as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• Sima Zhao, Chinese general and politician (d. 265)
• Xiahou Hui (or Yuanrong), Chinese noblewoman (d. 234)

Deaths

• February 4 – Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (b. 145)^[1]
• December 26 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (b. 189)^[2]
• Fulvia Plautilla, Roman empress and wife of Caracalla
• Serapion of Antioch, patriarch of Antioch