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Roman Empire

• Emperor Hadrian
  Hadrian
  
  Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
   visits Britain
  Roman Britain
  
  Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia....
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• Foss Dyke
  Foss Dyke
  
  The Foss Dyke, or Fossdyke, may be the oldest canal in England which is still in use. It was long thought to have been constructed by the Roman Empire around 120 AD, though this is now considered doubtful....
   is constructed in Britain.
• An Indian ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian.
• Suetonius
  Suetonius
  
  Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius , was an equestrian and a historian during the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies on the battles of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar until Domitian, entitled On the Life of the Caesars....
   becomes Hadrian's secretary ab epistolis.

Asia

• Change of era name from Yuanchu (7th year) to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty
  Han Dynasty
  
  The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
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• The Scythians dominate western India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  : Punjab
  Punjab region
  
  Punjab , also Panjab , is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. The "Five Rivers" are Beas River, Ravi River, Sutlej, Chenab and Jhelum River; all these are tributaries of the Indus river, Jhelum being the biggest one....
  , Sind, the north of Gujerat and a portion of central India.

Births

• Irenaeus
  Irenaeus
  
  Saint Irenaeus , was a Catholic Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology....
  , Christian
  Christianity
  
  Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
   bishop and apologist
• Lucian
  Lucian
  
  Lucian of Samosata was an Assyrian people rhetorician, and satire who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature....
  , Syrian rhetoric
  Rhetoric
  
  Rhetoric is the art of using language as a means to persuade. Along with logic and dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse....
  ian and satirist
  Satire
  
  Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
  , writing in the Greek language
  Greek language
  
  Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
  

Deaths

• Dio Chrysostom
  Dio Chrysostom
  
  Dio Chrysostom , Dion of Prusa or Dio Cocceianus was a Greece orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the first century....
  , Greek historian