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Roman Empire

• Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his stepbrother Lucius Verus leave Rome, and establish their headquarters at Aquileia.
• The Roman army crosses the Alps into Pannonia and subdue the Marcomanni at Carnuntum north of the Danube.

[edit]Asia

• Change of Han Huandi to Han Lingdi of Han Dynasty; first year of Jianning era.

Roman Empire

• Emperor Marcus Aurelius forms a new military command, the praetentura Italiae et Alpium. Aquileia is relieved, and the Marcomanni are evicted from Roman territory.
• Marcus Aurelius signs a peace treaty with the Quadi and the Sarmatian Iazyges. The Germanic tribes of the Hasdingi (Vandals) and the Lacringi become Roman allies.
• Armenia and Mesopotamia becomes a protectorate of the Roman Empire.
• The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They reached Eleusis, near Athens, and destroyed the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
• In May or June, the orator Aelius Aristides delivered a public speech in Smyrna, lamenting the damage recently inflicted to the sacred site of Eleusis.

[edit]Births

• Sima Lang, elder brother of Sima Yi (d. 217)

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Roman Empire

• Emperor Marcus Aurelius crosses the Danube with an expeditionary force, he subdue the Marcomanni and their allies. In a pact signed with the Germanic tribes, he imports them into occupy areas of the Roman Empire that had been depopulated by the plague.
• The Sarmatians attack the lower Danube frontier.
• Miracle in Moravia: As the Roman army is encircled by the Quadi under intense heat, a violent thunderstorm sweeps away the Quadi in a torrent of water and mud, and refreshes the parched legionaries.
• Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, suppresses an agrarian revolt in Egypte and is made supreme commander of the Roman army in the East.

[edit]Asia

• Last (5th) year of Jianning era and start of Xiping era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

Roman Empire

• Gnaeus Claudius Severus and Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus become Roman Consuls.
• June 11 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius begins a campaign against the Quadi, who had broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm he defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
• Given control of the Eastern Empire, Avidius Cassius, the governor of Syria, crushes an insurrection of shepherds known as the boukoloi.

[edit]Births

• Maximinus Thrax, Roman emperor (d. 238)
• Mi Heng (d. 200)
• Sun Ben, nephew of Sun Jian (d. 209)
• Yuan Tan, eldest son of Yuan Shao (d. 205)

Roman Empire

• Empress Faustina the Younger accompanies her husband, Marcus Aurelius, on various military campaigns and enjoys the love of the Roman soldiers. Aurelius gives her the title of Mater Castrorum (Mother of the Camp).

[edit]Asia

• Reign in India of Yajnashri Satakarni, Satavahana king of the Andhra. He extends his empire from the center to the north of India.

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[edit]Arts and sciences

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is written, in Greek, while on military campaigns.

Roman Empire

• Marcus Aurelius suppresses a revolt of Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, after the latter proclaims himself emperor.
• Avidius Cassius fails in seeking support for his rebellion and is assassinated by Roman officers. They send his head to Aurelius, who persuades the Senate to pardonCassius's family.
• Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina, is named Caesar.
• M. Sattonius Iucundus, decurio in Colonia Ulpia Traiana, restores the Thermae of Coriovallum (modern Heerlen^[1] ) there are sources that state this happened in the 3rd century.^[2]

[edit]Asia

• Confucian scholars try to ensure their capacity in the royal court of China. They are massacred by the eunuchs.

Roman Empire

• November 27 – Marcus Aurelius grants Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.^[1]
• December 23 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus enter Rome after a campaign north of the Alps and receive a triumph for their victories over the Germanic tribes.^[2]
• Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is made. It is now kept at Museo Capitolini in Rome (approximate date).^[

Roman Empire

• Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar (age 15) and Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus become Roman Consuls.
• Commodus is given the title Augustus and is made co-emperor with the same status as his father Marcus Aurelius.
• Marcus Aurelius begins a systematic persecution of Christians at Rome, the followers take refuge in the catacombs.
• Churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing cannibalism and incest.
• Forty-seven Christians are martyred in Lyon (Saint Blandina and Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, are among them).
• Second Marcomannic War: Marcus Aurelius and Commodus begin war against the Quadi and the Marcomanni.

[edit]Asia

• Chinese troops suffer a crushing defeat against a confederacy of Central Asian tribes led by the Xianbei (see Wu Hu).