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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

• Pertinax quells the mutiny of the British Roman legions.
• Perennis, his family and many others are executed for conspiring against Commodus.

Asia

• Reign in India of Vasudeva, Kushan emperor.
• Zhi Yao, a Kushan Buddhist monk of Yuezhi ethnicity, translates Buddhist texts into the Chinese language during the Han Dynasty.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• Cleomedes discovers the refraction of light by the Earth's atmosphere.
• Chinese astronomers note in the Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu sight supernova now identified as RCW 86, the earliest identified supernova.

Religion

• Irenaeus writes that there are only four Gospels (approximate date).

Births

• Cao Zhen
• Liao Hua, approximate date
• Origen, Christian apologist (approximate date)
• Wang Xiang
• Xiahou Shang, approximate date

Deaths

• S. Datus, bishop of Ravenna (martyred)

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