200

Year 200 (CC) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century
Decades:	170s  180s  190s  – 200s –  210s  220s  230s
Years:	197 198 199 – 200 – 201 202 203

200 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	200 CC
Ab urbe condita	953
Assyrian calendar	4950
Balinese saka calendar	121–122
Bengali calendar	−393
Berber calendar	1150
Buddhist calendar	744
Burmese calendar	−438
Byzantine calendar	5708–5709
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2896 or 2836     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 2897 or 2837
Coptic calendar	−84 – −83
Discordian calendar	1366
Ethiopian calendar	192–193
Hebrew calendar	3960–3961
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	256–257
- Shaka Samvat	121–122
- Kali Yuga	3300–3301
Holocene calendar	10200
Iranian calendar	422 BP – 421 BP
Islamic calendar	435 BH – 434 BH
Javanese calendar	77–78
Julian calendar	200 CC
Korean calendar	2533
Minguo calendar	1712 before ROC 民前1712年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1268
Seleucid era	511/512 AG
Thai solar calendar	742–743
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 326 or −55 or −827     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 327 or −54 or −826

The eastern hemisphere in 200

Events

By place

World

• Human population reaches about 257 million.

Roman Empire

• Emperor Septimius Severus visits Syria, Palestine and Arabia.
• Palestine, benefiting from the kind policies of Severus, sees a big economic return.
• The province of Numidia is taken from the African proconsul and made an Imperial province.

India

• Rudrasena I, Saka ruler of the Western Satrap dynasty, becomes king of Malwa in ancient India.

Asia

• Chinese warlord Cao Cao defeats Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu.
• In Japan, Himiko, whose capital is in Yamatai, extends her authority over a number of clans.
• Empress Jingu sends a Japanese fleet to invade Korea. The Koreans surrender at the sight of the huge multi-oared ships and offer tribute.

America

• The Classic Age of Maya civilization begins (around this year).
• The Paracas culture in the Andes comes to an end (around this year).

By topic

Art

• Septimius Severus, Julia Domna and their children, Publius Septimius Geta and Caracalla, from Fayum, Egypt, is made. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.

Religion

• Jewish Eretz Yisraeli scholar Judah ha-Nasi puts together tracts of the Mishnah. This begins the making of Talmudic law.
• Clement of Alexandria says to not use musical instruments to support human voices in Christian music.
• Brahmanism changes into Hinduism (approximate date).

Births

• Fei Yi, an official of Shu (approximate date) (d. 253)
• Ma Jun (d. 265)
• Wang Ling, general of Wei (d. 250)
• Sun Shao, general of Wu (d. 242)
• Zhou Fang, general of Wu (d. 240)
• Diophantus, Greek mathematician
• Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman Emperor (d. 276)
• Valerian I, Roman Emperor

Deaths

• Chunyu Qiong (executed by Yuan Shao)
• Dong Cheng (executed by Cao Cao)
• Gan Ji, Taoist priest
• Han Juzi, general under Yuan Shao
• Ji Ping (executed by Cao Cao)
• Ju Shou (officer of Yuan Shao)
• Lü Weihuang
• Mi Heng, renowned scholar and friend of Kong Rong (executed by Huang Zu) (b. 173)
• Sui Yuanjin
• Sun Ce, 25, elder brother of the founder of Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan (b. 175)
• Tian Feng (executed by Yuan Shao)
• Wen Chou, general under Yuan Shao
• Xu Gong
• Yan Liang, general under Yuan Shao
• Zheng Xuan (b. 127)