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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

EVENTS

Roman Empire

--- April 8 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard Prefect , Marcus Opellius Macrinus . Macrinus, of Mauritania , becomes the first Equestrian Roman Emperor .

---Rome retains Mesopotamia under a treaty with Parthia .

---Death of Empress Julia , wife of Septimus Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta .

---Fire in the Amphitheater in Rome.

Religion

--- December 20 - The Papacy of Pope Zephyrinus ends.

--- Pope Callixtus I succeeds Pope Zephyrinus .

--- Hippolytus questions the election of the Pope Calixtus. Hippolytus later becomes anti-Pope.

--- Ciriacus succeeds Philadelphus as Patriarch Of Constantinople .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

April 8 - Caracalla , Roman Emperor (assassinated)

December 20 - Pope Zephyrinus

Lu Su , advisor to Sun Quan , sympathetic to Liu Bei

Wang Can , Chinese poet.