120

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.
• Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain.
• An Indian ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian.
• Suetonius becomes Hadrian's secretary ab epistolis.
• Market Gate of Miletus, from Miletos, is built. (approzimate date) It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.

Asia

• Change of era name from Yuanchu (7th year) to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
• The Scythians dominate western India: Punjab, Sind, the north of Gujerat and a portion of central India.

Births

• February 8 - Vettius Valens, Hellenistic astrologer
• Irenaeus, Christian bishop and apologist
• Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist, writing in the Greek language

Deaths

• Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian
• Nicomachus, Greek mathematician (approx. date)
• Sextus Pedius, Roman jurist
• Saint Matthias of Jerusalem, Bishop of Jerusalem
• Marcian of Tortona (or ? in 117) martyred saint
• Getulius, Saint Hermes, martyred saints

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