Decades: 170s 180s 190s 200s 210s - 220s - 230s 240s 250s 260s 270s

Years: 215 216 217 218 219 - 220 - 221 222 223 224 225

• Han Xiandi abdicated, symbolizing the end of the Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period in China.
• Cao Pi succeeds his father Cao Cao as ruler of the Kingdom of Wei

Deaths

• Cao Cao, self-appointed prime minister of the Han Dynasty