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Events
By Place
Roman Empire
* A law is passed in Rome banning the execution of slaves without a trial.
* Construction begins on theOlympeion ofAthens .
* Hadrian visitsPetra andGerasa (Jerash).
* A Triumphal Arch for Hadrian is built in Gerasa.Asia
* Huviska becomes king of the
Kushan Empire inIndia .
* TheScythian king Rudradaman I reconquers from theAndhra the lands annexed by Gautamiputra.
*Basra becomes the capital ofArabia .By Topic
Arts and Sciences
* Claudius Ptolemaeus tabulates angles of refraction for several media.
* TheAntinous Mondragone is sculpted.Births
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December 15 —Lucius Verus , future Roman Emperor
*Aulus Gellius ,Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)
* St.Irenaeus (approximate date)
*Avidius Cassius ,Roman Emperor Deaths
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Juvenal , satirist
*Carpocrates , religious philosopher
*Antinous , lover of the emperor Hadrian
*Marinus of Tyre , cartographer
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