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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

• Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor.
• Rome creates a 4 mile wide buffer zone on the Danubian side of the Danube.
• Work begins in Rome on the building of a column to commemorate wars conducted by Marcus Aurelius on the Danubian border.

Europe

• The Goths reach the banks of the Black Sea.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.
• Publication of Galen's popular work on hygiene.

Religion

• July 17 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia executed in Carthage (also in North Africa) for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs) -- they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.
• Commodus creates an official cult of the Zoroastrian god Mithra.

Births

Deaths

• March 17 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (b. 121)
• Aulus Gellius, Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)
• Gaius, Roman jurist (approximate date)
• Lucian (approximate date)
• Maximilla, Montanist heresiarchess
• Melito of Sardis, bishop of Sardis
• St. Miggin (martyred in Numidia)
• St. Namphamo and consorts (martyred)
• St. Symphorian (martyred)

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