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Contents

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

Asia

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

★ Pertinax quells the mutiny of the British Roman legions.

★ Perennis, his family and many others are executed for conspiring against Commodus.

Asia

★ Reign in India of Vasudeva, Kushan emperor.

★ Zhi Yao, a Kushan Buddhist monk of Yuezhi ethnicity, translates Buddhist texts into the Chinese language during the Han Dynasty

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

★ Cleomedes discovers the refraction of light by the Earth's atmosphere.

★ Chinese astronomers note in the ''Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu'' sight supernova now identified as RCW 86, the earliest identified supernova.

Religion

★ Irenaeus writes that there are only four Gospels (approximate date).

Births

★ Cao Zhen

★ Liao Hua, approximate date

★ Origen, Christian apologist (approximate date)

★ Wang Xiang

★ Xiahou Shang, approximate date

Deaths

★ S. Datus, bishop of Ravenna (martyred)