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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

Asia

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

★ A law is passed in Rome banning the execution of slaves without a trial.

★ Construction begins on the Olympeion of Athens.

★ Hadrian visits Petra and Gerasa (Jerash).

★ A Triumphal Arch for Hadrian is built in Gerasa.

Asia

★ Huviska becomes king of the Kushan Empire in India.

★ The Scythian king Rudradaman I reconquers from the Andhra the lands annexed by Gautamiputra.

★ Basra becomes the capital of Arabia.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

★ Claudius Ptolemaeus tabulated angles of refraction for several media.

★ The Antinous Mondragone was sculpted.

Births

★ December 15 — Lucius Verus, future Roman Emperor

★ Aulus Gellius, Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)

★ St. Irenaeus (approximate date)

★ Avidius Cassius, Roman Emperor

Deaths

★ Juvenal, satirist.

★ Carpocrates, religious philosopher.

★ Antinous, lover of the emperor Hadrian

★ Marinus of Tyre, cartographer