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Events

By place

Roman Empire

By topic

Religion

Arts and Sciences

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Roman Empire

★ Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Empire set by Augustus.

★ Battle of Tapae

★ Epictetus writes and publishes ''The Discourses''.

By topic

Religion

★ The Chinese (Tibetans) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia.

Arts and Sciences

★ Plutarch writes his ''Parallel lives of famous men'' (in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

Births

★ Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician

★ Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer.

Deaths

★ Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire) although he never reached there.

★ John the Apostle dies around this year in Ephesus.

★ Saint Clement of Rome, Bishop of Rome, Epistle to the Corinthians, during the last decade of the first century.

★ Silius Italicus, author of Punicus, the annals of Hannibal during the Second Punic War.