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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 the Olympeion of Athens.
• Hadrian visits Petra and Gerasa (Jerash).
• A Triumphal Arch for Hadrian is built in Gerasa.

Asia

• Huviska becomes king of the Kushan Empire in India.
• The Scythian king Rudradaman I reconquers from the Andhra the lands annexed by Gautamiputra.
• Basra becomes the capital of Arabia.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• Claudius Ptolemaeus tabulates angles of refraction for several media.
• The Antinous Mondragone is sculpted.

Births

• December 15 — Lucius Verus, future Roman Emperor
• Aulus Gellius, Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)
• St. Irenaeus (approximate date)
• Avidius Cassius, Roman Emperor

Deaths

• Juvenal, satirist
• Carpocrates, religious philosopher
• Antinous, lover of the emperor Hadrian
• Marinus of Tyre, cartographer

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