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In 217, the emperor Caracalla was assassinated and replaced by his Praetorian prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
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Mauretania gave to the empire one emperor, the equestrian Macrinus, who seized power after the assassination of Caracalla in 217 but was himself defeated and executed by Elagabalus the next year.
Macrinus became emperor in 217 after Caracalla was murdered by Justin Martialus while fighting the Parthians.
217 and Caracalla
* 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated ( and succeeded ) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
The Roman Emperor Caracalla ( 188 AD to 217 AD ) visited the shrine of ‘ the Celtic healing-god ’ Grannus during the war with Germany in about 215.
A number of Roman altars have been discovered dating to the reigns of Antoninus Pius ( 138 to 161 ), and Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla ( 211 to 217 ).
In the next decades, the main base was again Pannonia, but they played a part in several Parthian wars, namely the campaigns of 195 and 197 – 198 of Septimius Severus, 215 – 217 led by Caracalla and 244 by Gordian III.
Following this, the remains of succeeding emperors were also placed here, the last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217 AD.
The Roman altars date to the reigns of Antoninus Pius ( 138 to 161 ), and Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla ( 211 to 217 ).
From the remains of an inscription reading … I ANTONINI AUG. on a cornice block which can still be seen at the site, we learn that the tholos belongs to the period of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ( Caracalla ) who became Augustus in 198 and died in 217.
Book Three encompasses the reign of Septimius Severus from 193 to 211, while the fourth discusses the reign of Caracalla from 211 to 217.
Macrinus was praetorian prefect ( praefectus praetorio ) under " Caracalla ", whom he may have conspired to murder in April 217.
217 and was
By 2001, the population had jumped to 206, 073, and it was 217, 988, in 48, 061 families, according to 2006 census.
In 1998 net official development assistance was US $ 135. 8 million ; in 2002 it reached US $ 217. 6 million.
One of the most extensive was perhaps the work done in Riga by Krisjanis Barons who between the years between 1894 and 1915 published six volumes including the texts of 217 996 Latvian folk songs ; the Latvju dainas.
He was Roman Consul five times ( 233 BC, 228 BC, 215 BC, 214 BC and 209 BC ) and was twice Dictator, in 221 and again in 217 BC.
The alchemist's ( and Coelho's ) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde ( 1946 ) in which this story is recorded ( Penguin edition, p. 217 ) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.
Pope Saint Callixtus I or Callistus I was pope from about 217 to about 222, during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Elagabalus and Alexander Severus.
An exception was in 217 BC, when a Carthaginian fleet of 70 quinqueremes was intercepted off the coast of Etruria by a Roman fleet of 120 quinqueremes and retreated without giving battle.
Year 217 ( CCXVII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.
For the stadium's first game, the announced attendance was 74, 217 ( with another 25, 000 turned away ); however, Yankees business manager Ed Barrow later admitted that this number was likely heavily overestimated.
In 217, the Colosseum was badly damaged by a major fire ( caused by lightning, according to Dio Cassius ) which destroyed the wooden upper levels of the amphitheatre's interior.
While travelling from Edessa to continue the war with Parthia, he was assassinated while urinating at a roadside near Carrhae on 8 April AD 217, by Julius Martialis, an officer of his personal bodyguard.
By 1912, Lille's population was at 217, 000: the city profited from the Industrial Revolution, particularly via coal and the steam engine.
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