This article is about the year 211. For the number, see 211 (number). For the N11 code (a phone number), see 2-1-1. For the higher education development program in China, see Project 211. For other uses, see 211 (disambiguation).
Year 211 (CCXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, in the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Terentius and Bassus (or, less frequently, year 964 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 211 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Dominicalendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. In 211, the Julian year stayed behind tropical year by accumulated two days.
December 19– Geta is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet Caracalla, to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him, and he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna.
