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Roman Empire

• Marcus Aurelius
  Marcus Aurelius
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Lucius' death in 169...
  
   receives imperial powers from Antoninus Pius
  Antoninus Pius
  Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus , generally known in English as Antoninus Pius was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors and a member of the Aurelii. He did not possess the sobriquet "Pius" until after his accession to the throne...
  
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• Festivals to celebrate the 900^th anniversary of the founding of Rome
  Ancient Rome
  Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea, it became one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
  
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Births

• Jia Xu
  Jia Xu
  Jia Xu , styled Wenhe , was an important strategist and advisor during the Three Kingdoms era of China. He followed Dong Zhuo, Li Jue and Zhang Xiu before finally joining Cao Cao. After Cao Cao's death, he served his successor, Cao Pi...
  
  , adviser to many important figures during the Chinese Han Dynasty
  Han Dynasty
  The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the peasant rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...
  
   (d. 224
  224
  -Asia:* Ardashir I defeats the Arsacid King Artabanus IV at Hormizdegan, destroying the Parthian Empire and establishing the Sassanid dynasty.-Births:* St. Philopater Mercurius* Jungcheon of Goguryeo...
  
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Deaths

• Vologases III of Parthia
  Vologases III of Parthia
  Vologases III of Parthia claimed the throne of the Parthian Empire about 105, in the last days of Pacorus II of Parthia . He reigned over the eastern portion of the kingdom from 105 to 147...
  
  
• Xu Shen
  Xu Shen
  Xǔ Shèn was a Chinese philologist of the Han Dynasty. He was the author of Shuowen Jiezi, the first Chinese dictionary with character analysis, as well as the first to organize the characters by shared components...
  
  , Chinese author of the Shuowen Jiezi
  Shuowen Jiezi
  The Shuōwén Jiězì was an early 2nd century CE Chinese dictionary from the Han Dynasty...
  
  dictionary of etymology
  Etymology
  Etymology is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages, and texts about the languages, to gather knowledge about how words were used at earlier stages, and...
  
   (born 58
  58
  Year 58 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.-Roman Empire:* Roman emperor Nero is also a Roman Consul....
  
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