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Events

By place

Roman Empire

* The Pantheon is constructed in (Rome) as it stands today by Hadrian.
* Hadrian establishes the Panhellenion.
* Hadrian distributes imperial lands to small farmers.

Asia

* Last (4th) year of the "Yanguang" era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
* Change of emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty from Han Andi to Marquis of Beixiang, then to Han Shundi.
* Gautamiputra Satakarni, a king of the Andhra dynasty, destroys the kingdom of Maharashtra near Bombay. He now controls central India from coast to coast.
* Zhang Heng of Han Dynasty China invents a hydraulic-powered armillary sphere.

By topic

Arts and Sciences

* The Satires of Juvenal intimate that bread and circuses ("panem et circenses") keep the Roman people happy.

Religion

* Pope Telesphorus succeeds Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope.

Births

* Lucius Ferenius, potter in Heerlen

Deaths

* Han Andi of the Chinese Han Dynasty (b. 94)
* Marquis of Beixiang of the Chinese Han Dynasty, murdered