226

Year 226 (CCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	190s  200s  210s  – 220s –  230s  240s  250s
Years:	223 224 225 – 226 – 227 228 229

226 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	226 CCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	979
Assyrian calendar	4976
Balinese saka calendar	147–148
Bengali calendar	−367
Berber calendar	1176
Buddhist calendar	770
Burmese calendar	−412
Byzantine calendar	5734–5735
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2922 or 2862     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2923 or 2863
Coptic calendar	−58 – −57
Discordian calendar	1392
Ethiopian calendar	218–219
Hebrew calendar	3986–3987
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	282–283
- Shaka Samvat	147–148
- Kali Yuga	3326–3327
Holocene calendar	10226
Iranian calendar	396 BP – 395 BP
Islamic calendar	408 BH – 407 BH
Javanese calendar	104–105
Julian calendar	226 CCXXVI
Korean calendar	2559
Minguo calendar	1686 before ROC 民前1686年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1242
Seleucid era	537/538 AG
Thai solar calendar	768–769
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 352 or −29 or −801     — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 353 or −28 or −800

Events

By place

Asia

• June 29 – Cao Pi dies. His son Cao Rui becomes emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
• King Ardashir I defeats Artabanus IV. He is crowned "King of Kings" of the Persian Empire. This begins the 400 year-reign of the Sassanid Empire.
• The Empire of Parthia falls.

Births

• Wang Bi, Chinese philosopher (d. 249)
• Lu Kang, son of Lu Xun (b. 274)

Deaths

• June 29 – Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (China) (b. 187)
• Shi Xie, ruler of Jiaozhi (b. 137)
• Shi Hui, son of Shi Xie
• Shi Zhi, eldest son of Shi Xie
• Artabanus IV, last ruler of the Parthian Empire