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Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Empire set by Augustus.
• The Battle of Tapae is fought.
• Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses.

By topic

Religion

• The Chinese (Tibetans) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia.

Arts and Sciences

• Plutarch writes his Parallel Lives of Famous Men (in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

Births

• Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician
• Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer

Deaths

• Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire), although he never reached there
• John the Apostle dies around this year in Ephesus
• Saint Clement of Rome, Bishop of Rome (Epistle to the Corinthians) during the last decade of the first century
• Silius Italicus, author of Punicus (the annals of Hannibal during the Second Punic War)

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