197

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century
Decades:	160s 170s 180s – 190s – 200s 210s 220s
Years:	194 195 196 – 197 – 198 199 200

197 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

19 February—Battle of Lugdunum: Roman usurper Albinus is defeated by the forces of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus.
Lyon, which had been the headquarters of Clodius Albinus, is sacked and destroyed.
Sixty-four senators are denounced as accomplices of Albinus and twenty-four are put to death.
Legio I, II, and III Parthica are levied by Septimius Severus for his Parthian campaign.
Septimius Severus sacks Ctesiphon and captures an enormous number of its inhabitants as slaves.
Septimius reconstitutes the Province of Mesopotamia under an equestrian governor commanding two legions.
Severus, who had spared the Senate at the beginning of his reign, now excludes it from controlling the empire by declaring a military dictatorship.