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Roman Empire

• The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens) is completed using Cossutius' design.
• The messianic, charismatic Jew
  Jew
  
  A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
  ish leader Simon bar Kokhba
  Simon bar Kokhba
  
  Simon bar Kokhba was the Jewish leader who led what is known as Bar Kokhba's revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 Common Era, establishing an independent Jewish state of Israel which he ruled for three years as Nasi ....
   starts a war of liberation for Judea
  Judea
  
  Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
   (Bar Kokhba revolt) against the Romans, which is eventually crushed (in 135) by 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....
  . Rabbi Akiva
  Rabbi Akiva
  
  Akiba ben Yossef or simply Rabbi Akiva was a Judean tannaim of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century ....
   is supportive of the rebellion.
• The legion X Fretensis
  Legio X Fretensis
  
  Legio decima Fretensis of the sea strait") was a Roman legion levied by Augustus in 41/40 BC to fight during the period of Roman Civil War that started the dissolution of the Roman Republic....
   must evacuate Jerusalem
  Jerusalem
  
  Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
  , returning to Caesarea. The Jew
  Jew
  
  A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
  s enter the city and re-establish their system of sacrifices. They strike coins to celebrate their independence, which would last for only 30 months. The legion XXII Deiotariana
  Legio XXII Deiotariana
  
  Legio vigesima secunda Deiotariana was a Roman legion, levied approximately in 48 BC and possibly destroyed in the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135....
  , which advanced from Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  , is completely destroyed.
• Construction begins on the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome
  Rome
  
  Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  , today known as Castel Sant'Angelo
  Castel Sant'Angelo
  
  The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as the Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Rome, initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family....
  .

Asia

• Change of era name from Yongjian (7th year) to Yangjia of the Chinese 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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Arts and Sciences

• Chinese scientist Zhang Heng
  Zhang Heng
  
  Zhang Heng was an Chinese astronomy, Chinese mathematics, List of Chinese inventions, Chinese geography, History of cartography#China, Chinese art, Chinese poetry, Government of the Han Dynasty, and Chinese literature from Nanyang, Henan, Henan, and lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China....
   invents the first seismometer
  Seismometer
  
  Seismometers are instruments that measure and record motions of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, nuclear explosions, and other seismic sources....
   for determining the exact cardinal direction
  Cardinal direction
  
  The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials - N, S, E, W. They are mostly used for geography orientation on Earth but may be calculated anywhere on a rotating astronomical object....
   of earthquake
  Earthquake
  
  An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
  s hundreds of miles away; the device employs a series of complex gears around a central swinging pendulum
  Pendulum
  
  A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so it can swing freely.When a pendulum is displaced from its resting Mechanical equilibrium, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position....
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Births

• Tao Qian
  Tao Qian
  
  Tao Qian , also known as Tao Yuanming , born in modern Jiujiang, was one of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty List of Chinese language poets....
  , governor of Xuzhou
  Xuzhou
  
  Xuzhou , known as Pengcheng in ancient times, is the forth largest prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province of China, People's Republic of China....
   (d. 194
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• Han Huandi
  Emperor Huan of Han
  
  Emperor Huan of Han, Chinese character ???, Pinyin. h?n h?an d?, Wade-Giles. Han Huan-ti, was an emperor of China of the Chinese Han Dynasty....
  , emperor of the 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....
   (d. 168
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• Cai Yong
  Cai Yong
  
  Cai Yong was a China scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was well-versed in calligraphy, music, mathematics, and astronomy. One of his daughters is the famous Cai Wenji....
  , Chinese calligrapher and musician (d. 192
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Deaths

• Sun Cheng
  Sun Cheng
  
  Sun Cheng was an eunuch during Han Dynasty who, contrary to the stereotypes of Han eunuchs being corrupt and power-hungry, was loyal to the imperial family and tried to counter the culture of corruption....