Events March 7 - Roman emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. ... Events Lucius Verus begins a war with the Parthians, due to the invasion of Syria and Armenia by Vologases III of Parthia. ... Events Statius Priscus reconquers Armenia; Artaxata is ruined. ... Events Ctesiphon is captured by the Romans, but returned to the Parthians after the end of the war. ... Events Pope Soter succeeds Pope Anicetus Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Laurence to Patriarch Alypius Dacia invaded by barbarians Conflict erupts on the Danube frontier between Rome and the Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni Roman envoy sent out by emperor Antoninus Pius. ... Events Germanic tribe Marcomanni waged war against the Romans at Aquileia Change of era name from Yanxi to Yongkang of the Chinese Han Dynasty King Chogo of Baekje waged war against Silla in Korean peninsula. ... Events Change of Han Huandi to Han Lingdi of Han Dynasty; first year of Jianning era. ... For other uses, see number 169. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century Decades: 80s - 90s - 100s - 110s - 120s - 130s - 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 Events and trends Significant people Hadrian, Roman Emperor Categories: 130s ... Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century Decades: 90s - 100s - 110s - 120s - 130s - 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 Events and trends Significant people Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138-161) Categories: 140s ... Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century Decades: 100s - 110s - 120s - 130s - 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s - 200s 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 Events and trends Significant people Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138-161) Categories: 150s ... Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century Decades: 110s - 120s - 130s - 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s - 200s - 210s 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 Events and trends Execution of Justin Martyr, Rome Significant people Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor Lucius Verus, Roman Emperor Category: 160s ... Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century Decades: 120s - 130s - 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s - 200s - 210s - 220s 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 Events and trends War on the Danubian border between the Roman Empire and the Marcomanni. ... Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century Decades: 130s - 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s - 200s - 210s - 220s - 230s 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 Events and trends Significant people Commodus, Roman Emperor Categories: 180s ... Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century Decades: 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s - 200s - 210s - 220s - 230s - 240s 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 // Events and trends Commodus is assassinated on the last day of 192, leading to a period of civil war, which ends... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD. // Events 8-23: Wang Mang overthrew Han dynasty of China 28-75 Emperor Ming of Han, Buddhism reaches China Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write... // Events Roman Empire governed by the Five Good Emperors (96–180) – Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius. ... // Overview Events 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men 212-216: Baths of Caracalla 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire 250-538: Kofun era, the first...

Events

• Roman operations under Avidius Cassius was successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon. The Parthians sued for peace.
• A pandemic known as the Antonine Plague breaks out in Rome after the Roman army returns from Parthia.
• Legio II Italica is levied by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Roman Empire between AD 60 and 400 with major cities. ... Gaius Avidius Cassius (ca. ... Parthia, or known in their native Iranian language as Ashkâniân [2] (also called the Arsacid Empire) was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE. It was the second dynasty of... City plan of Artaxatas hill I and its fortifications. ... The name Seleucia may denote any one of several cities in the Seleucid Empire. ... Ctesiphon, 1932 Ctesiphon (Parthian: Tyspwn as well as Tisfun) is one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia and the capital of the Parthian Empire and its successor, the Sassanid Empire, for more than 800 years located in the ancient Iranian province of Khvarvaran. ... A pandemic (from Greek pan all + demos people) is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads worldwide, or at least across a large region. ... The Antonine Plague AD 165-180, also known as the Plague of Galen, was an ancient pandemic, either of smallpox or measles brought back to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Soldiers of the Roman Army (on manoeuvres in Nashville, Tennessee) Rome was a militarized state whose history was often closely entwined with its military history over the 1228 years that the Roman state is traditionally said to have existed. ... Parthia, or known in their native Iranian language as Ashkâniân [2] (also called the Arsacid Empire) was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE. It was the second dynasty of... Legio II Italica, meaning from Italy, was a Roman legion levied by emperor Marcus Aurelius in 165 AD together with Legio I Italica at a time when the Roman Empire was fighting both in Germania and in Parthia. ... Roman Emperor is the term historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... Bust of Aurelius in the Louvre of Paris. ...

Births

• Macrinus, Roman emperor (approximate date)

Macrinus on an aureus. ... Roman Emperor is the term historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ...

Deaths

• Justin Martyr, early apologist for Christianity
• Claudius Ptolemaeus, Greek astronomer (approximate date)