223

Year 223 (CCXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Maximus and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 976 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 223 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.

This article is about the year 223. For the number, see 223 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	200s 210s 220s 230s 240s
Years:	220 221 222 223 224 225 226

223 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	223 CCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	976
Assyrian calendar	4973
Balinese saka calendar	144–145
Bengali calendar	−370
Berber calendar	1173
Buddhist calendar	767
Burmese calendar	−415
Byzantine calendar	5731–5732
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2919 or 2859     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2920 or 2860
Coptic calendar	−61 – −60
Discordian calendar	1389
Ethiopian calendar	215–216
Hebrew calendar	3983–3984
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	279–280
- Shaka Samvat	144–145
- Kali Yuga	3323–3324
Holocene calendar	10223
Iranian calendar	399 BP – 398 BP
Islamic calendar	411 BH – 410 BH
Javanese calendar	101–102
Julian calendar	223 CCXXIII
Korean calendar	2556
Minguo calendar	1689 before ROC 民前1689年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1245
Seleucid era	534/535 AG
Thai solar calendar	765–766
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 349 or −32 or −804     — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 350 or −31 or −803

Events

By place

China

• Battle of Dongkou between the Chinese states of Cao Wei and Eastern Wu

Births

• Ji Kang, Chinese polymath (d. 262)

Deaths

• May 6 – Cao Ren, general of the Cao Wei state (b. 168)
• June 10 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord and founding emperor of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period (b. 161)
• August 1 – Cao Zhang, prince and general of the Cao Wei state
• August 11 – Jia Xu, official of the Cao Wei state (b. 147)