221

This article is about the year 221. For the number, see 221 (number). For other uses, see 221 (disambiguation).

Year 221 (CCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gratus and Vitellius (or, less frequently, year 974 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 221 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.

221 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	221 CCXXI
Ab urbe condita	974
Assyrian calendar	4971
Balinese saka calendar	142–143
Bengali calendar	−373 – −372
Berber calendar	1171
Buddhist calendar	765
Burmese calendar	−417
Byzantine calendar	5729–5730
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2918 or 2711     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2919 or 2712
Coptic calendar	−63 – −62
Discordian calendar	1387
Ethiopian calendar	213–214
Hebrew calendar	3981–3982
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	277–278
- Shaka Samvat	142–143
- Kali Yuga	3321–3322
Holocene calendar	10221
Iranian calendar	401 BP – 400 BP
Islamic calendar	413 BH – 412 BH
Javanese calendar	99–100
Julian calendar	221 CCXXI
Korean calendar	2554
Minguo calendar	1691 before ROC 民前1691年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1247
Seleucid era	532/533 AG
Thai solar calendar	763–764
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 347 or −34 or −806     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Iron-Ox) 348 or −33 or −805

Statue of Liu Bei in the temple of Zhuge Liang, Chengdu (China)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• June 26 – Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir, and receives the title of Caesar.^[1]
• July – Elagabalus is forced to divorce Aquilia Severa, and marries his third wife Annia Faustina. After five months he returns to Severa, and claims that the original divorce is invalid. The marriage is symbolic, because Elagabalus appears to be homosexual or bisexual. According to the historian Cassius Dio, he has a stable relationship with his chariot driver, the slave Hierocles.

Asia

• May 15 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord and descendant of the imperial clan of the Han dynasty, proclaims himself emperor in Chengdu, Sichuan, and establishes the state of Shu Han.

Births

• Liu Ling, Chinese poet and scholar (d. 300)
• Yang Hu, Chinese general and politician (d. 278)

Deaths

• August 4 – Lady Zhen, Chinese noblewoman (b. 183)
• Dong He (or Youzai), Chinese official and politician
• Mi Zhu, Chinese general and politician (b. 165)
• Yu Jin, Chinese general serving under Cao Cao
• Zhang Fei, Chinese general and politician