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Heads of State

Year of the Water Tiger壬寅( at the beginning of the year metal buffalo辛丑)

Syria: 473/474 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Roman Empire

• Quintus Junius Rusticus and Lucius Titius Plautius Aquilinus are Roman Consuls.
• Parthian War in the East: co-emperor Lucius Verus having command of the Roman punitive expedition against the Parthians. He travels to Brundisium (now Brindisi ) to embark for Syria.

Born

• Annius Verus Caesar, son and designated heir to the throne of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius († 169)

Died

• 162: Appian, Roman historian (* after 90 )