198

The year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year beginning on a Sunday of the Julian calendar, in force on that date.

In the Roman Empire the year was named the year of the consulate of Sergius and Gallus, or less frequently, as 951 ab urbe condita, being its denomination as 198 at the beginning of the Middle Ages, when the anno Domini was established.

Events

Roman Empire

• In Rome, Caracalla (188-217), the eldest son of the Roman emperor Septimius Severo, receives the title of Augustus. The second brother, Publio Septimio Geta (189-211), receives the title of Caesar.
• In Constantinople (current Istanbul in Turkey), Mark I happens to Olympian as the patriarch of Constantinople.

Asian

• In Mecca (Arabia), the first testimonies of the cult of the Hubal god are recorded among the Nebateans. His magnificent statue will be destroyed by Mohammed in 630.
• In the battle of Xiapi (China), the warlord Cao Cao defeats Lü Bu and takes him prisoner. (In February of the following year he will send him to hang and send his head decapitated to his city).

Births

• Lu Kai, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Wu (f. 269).

Deaths

• Lü Bu, Chinese general.
• Byzantium Olympus, Christian religious.
• Han Xian, Chinese general of the Han dynasty.
• My Heng, a Chinese scholar, a friend of Kong Rong and executed by Huang Zu (n. 173).
• Yang Chou (n. 159).