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Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)

Syria: 431/432 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Lucius Claudius Julianus Severus Catilius Reginus and the future emperor Antoninus Pius are Roman Consuls.
  • 120: Emperor Hadrian in Rome can rebuild the Pantheon.

Born

  • 120: Lucian of Samosata, Greek satirist († after 180 )

Died

  • Matthias, Bishop of Jerusalem
  • Symphorosa, Christian martyr
  • 120: Faustino and Jovita, Christian martyr
  • 120: Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian (c. 58)
  • 120: Martianus of Tortona, Bishop of Tortona, Martyr
  • 120: Apollonius of Tyana, Greek philosopher (c. 40)
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