218

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Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	190s 200s 210s 220s 230s
Years:	215 216 217 218 219 220 221
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218 by topic
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218 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 218
CCXVIII

Ab urbe condita 971

Assyrian calendar 4968

Balinese saka calendar 139–140

Bengali calendar −376 – −375

Berber calendar 1168

Buddhist calendar 762

Burmese calendar −420

Byzantine calendar 5726–5727

Chinese calendar 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
2915 or 2708
— to —
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
2916 or 2709

Coptic calendar −66 – −65

Discordian calendar 1384

Ethiopian calendar 210–211

Hebrew calendar 3978–3979

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 274–275

- Shaka Samvat 139–140

- Kali Yuga 3318–3319

Holocene calendar 10218

Iranian calendar 404 BP – 403 BP

Islamic calendar 416 BH – 415 BH

Javanese calendar 95–96

Julian calendar 218
CCXVIII

Korean calendar 2551

Minguo calendar 1694 before ROC
民前1694年

Nanakshahi calendar −1250

Seleucid era 529/530 AG

Thai solar calendar 760–761

Tibetan calendar 阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
344 or −37 or −809
— to —
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
345 or −36 or −808

Year 218 (CCXVIII ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Adventus (or, less frequently, year 971 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 218 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.

Events

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Roman Empire

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May 16 – Julia Maesa, an aunt of the assassinated Emperor Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus, and declares her grandson Elagabalus, age 14, emperor of Rome.
June 8 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats, with the support of the Syrian legions, the forces of Macrinus. Macrinus flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
Diadumenianus, son of Macrinus, escapes to the Parthian court, but is captured at Zeugma and also put to death.

Asia

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Spring – Ji Ben (or Ji Ping), Chinese court physician, plots a rebellion in the imperial capital Xu (modern-day Xuchang), but the revolt is suppressed and the conspirators are captured and executed.

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Commerce

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The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 43 percent under the reign of Elagabalus, down from 50 percent under Septimius Severus, as he empties the treasury.