203

203 (CCIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 203rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 203rd year of the 1st millennium, the 3rd year of the 3rd century, and the 4th year of the 200s decade. As of the start of 203, the Gregorian calendar was in agreement with the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

203 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	203 CCIII
Ab urbe condita	956
Assyrian calendar	4953
Balinese saka calendar	124–125
Bengali calendar	−390
Berber calendar	1153
Buddhist calendar	747
Burmese calendar	−435
Byzantine calendar	5711–5712
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 2899 or 2839     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2900 or 2840
Coptic calendar	−81 – −80
Discordian calendar	1369
Ethiopian calendar	195–196
Hebrew calendar	3963–3964
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	259–260
- Shaka Samvat	124–125
- Kali Yuga	3303–3304
Holocene calendar	10203
Iranian calendar	419 BP – 418 BP
Islamic calendar	432 BH – 431 BH
Javanese calendar	80–81
Julian calendar	203 CCIII
Korean calendar	2536
Minguo calendar	1709 before ROC 民前1709年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1265
Seleucid era	514/515 AG
Thai solar calendar	745–746
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 329 or −52 or −824     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 330 or −51 or −823

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Septimius Severus rebuilds Byzantium.
• Gaius Fulvius Plautianus and Publius Septimius Geta become Roman Consuls.
• An arch dedicated to Severus is put up near the Forum.
• The Portico of Octavia is rebuilt.

Asia

• Reign in India of Vijaya, Satavahana king of the Andhra.
• The Andhra empire is being broken apart into smaller and smaller independent sections.

By topic

Religion

• Origen of Alexandria replaces Clement as the head of the Christian school in Alexandria.

Births

• November – Mahavatar Babaji in Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Probable birth of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus (d. 222)
• Cao Rui, emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (approximate date) (d. 239)
• Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, officer of the Wu Kingdom (d. 253)

Deaths

• Perpetua, Christian saint (martyred)
• Felicitas, Christian saint (martyred)
• Ling Cao, general under Sun Ce and father of Ling Tong (killed by pirate Gan Ning)
• Wu Jing