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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
- February 7: Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer and astrologer († 175 )
- 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)