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Roman Empire

• The praetorian prefect Tarutenius Paternus achieved a decisive victory against the Quadi.
• Commodus
  Commodus
  
  Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus , was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 . The name given here was his official name at his accession to sole rule; see 'Commodus#Changes of name' for earlier and later forms....
   succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius
  Marcus Aurelius
  
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
   as Roman Emperor
  Roman Emperor
  
  The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
  . The Era of the Five Good Emperors
  Five Good Emperors
  
  The Five Good Emperors is a term that refers to five consecutive emperors of the Roman Empire who represented a line of virtuous and just rule ? Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius....
   ends.
• 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 ....
   creates a 4 mile wide buffer zone by the Danube
  Danube
  
  The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
  .
• Work begins in Rome on the building of a column to commemorate wars conducted by Marcus Aurelius
  Marcus Aurelius
  
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
   on the Danubian border.
• 180–395
  395
  
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   — Late Empire
  Empire
  
  Empire derives from the Latin word imperium, denoting ?military command? in Roman. Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a monarch or an oligarchy....
   in Rome.
• Porta Nigra
  Porta Nigra
  
  The Porta Nigra is a large Roman Empire city gates in Trier, Germany. It is today the largest Roman city gate north of the Alps and has been designated a World Heritage Site....
   is built in Germanian Trier
  Trier
  
  Trier is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC. Trier is not the only city claiming to be Germany's oldest, but it is the only one that bases this assertion on having the longest history as a city, as opposed to a mere settlement or army camp....
  .

Europe

• The Goths
  Goths
  
  The Goths were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, invasion the Roman Empire and later adopted Arian Christianity. In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy....
   reach the banks of the Black Sea
  Black Sea
  
  The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
  .

China

• This year is often suggested as the first year of the Three Kingdoms
  Three Kingdoms
  
  The Three Kingdoms period is a period in the history of China, part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties following immediately the loss of de facto power of the Han Dynasty emperors....
   period of China.

Oceania

• Lake Taupo
  Lake Taupo
  
  Lake Taupo is a lake situated in the North Island of New Zealand. It has a perimeter of approximately 193 kilometres, a deepest point of 186 metres and a surface area of 616 square kilometres....
   erupts, forming ash clouds as far as China and Europe.

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Arts and Sciences

• In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen
  Galen
  
  Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamum , was a prominent Ancient Rome physician and philosopher of Greek origin, and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period....
   describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.
• Galen's popular work on hygiene is published.

Religion

• July 17 — Twelve inhabitants of Scillium
  Scillium
  
  Scillium is the name of an ancient city and now titular episcopal see in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.Perhaps the name should be written Scilium: the real name was possibly Scilli, or better, Scili....
   in Numidia
  Numidia
  
  Numidia was an ancient Berber people kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today....
   are executed in Carthage
  Carthage
  
  Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
   (also in North Africa) for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs
  Scillitan Martyrs
  
  The Scillitan Martyrs were a company of twelve North African Christians who were executed for their beliefs on July 17, 180. The martyrs take their name from Scilla , a town in Numidia....
  ) — they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.
• Commodus creates an official cult of the Zoroastrian god Mithra
  Mithra
  
  Mithra is an important deity or divine concept in Zoroastrianism and later Iranian history and culture.Mithra is descended, together with the Historical Vedic religion deity Mitra , from a common proto-Indo-Iranian entity *mitra "treaty, bond"....
  .

Births

• Sima Fu
  Sima Fu
  
  Sima Fu was a politician in the latter part of the Han Dynasty, and then in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. He served the Kingdom of Wei, and then later the Jin Dynasty ....
  , younger brother of Sima Yi
  Sima Yi
  
  Sima Yi was a strategist, general, and politician of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms era of China. He is perhaps best known for defending Cao Wei from Zhuge Liang's Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions....
   (d. 272
  272
  
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Deaths

• March 17 — Marcus Aurelius
  Marcus Aurelius
  
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
  , Roman Emperor
  Roman Emperor
  
  The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
   (b. 121
  121
  
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• Aulus Gellius
  Aulus Gellius
  
  Aulus Gellius , Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at Rome.He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office....
  , Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)
• Gaius
  Gaius (jurist)
  
  Gaius was a celebrated Roman empire jurist. Scholars know very little of his personal life. It is impossible to discover even his full name, Gaius or Caius being merely his personal name ....
  , Roman jurist (approximate date)
• 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....
   (approximate date)
• Maximilla, Montanist
  Montanism
  
  Montanism was an Early Christianity movement of the early 2nd century A.D., named after its founder Montanus. It originated at Hierapolis where Papias was bishop and flourished throughout the region of Phrygia, leading to the movement being referred to as Cataphrygian ....
   heresiarchess
• Melito of Sardis
  Melito of Sardis
  
  Saint Melito of Sardis was the See of Sardis, near Smyrna in Asia Minor, and a great authority: Jerome, speaking of the Old Testament biblical canon established by Melito, quotes Tertullian to the effect that he was esteemed a prophet by many of the faithful....
  , bishop of Sardis
  Sardis
  
  Sardis, also Sardes , modern Sart in the Manisa province of Turkey, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, one of the important cities of the Persian Empire, the seat of a proconsul under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the province Lydia in later Roman and Byzantine Empire times....
  
• St. Miggin (martyred in Numidia
  Numidia
  
  Numidia was an ancient Berber people kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today....
  )
• St. Namphamo and consorts (martyred)
• St. Symphorian (martyred)