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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Hare己卯( at the beginning of the year Earth Tiger戊寅)

Syria: 450/451 ( year in October )

Events

• Completion of the construction of Hadrianmausoleums, now Castel Sant'Angelo, grave laying for the Emperor to Caracalla and their families.
• The future emperor Marcus Aurelius became engaged to Faustina the Younger, having previously made ​​on the disposition of the deceased in the previous year Hadrian engagement with Lucius Verus Faustina is released.

Born

• Dong Zhuo, Chinese general and politician ( † 192)

Died

• Zhang Heng, Chinese mathematician, astronomer, geographer, writer and inventor (* 78)

• 139: Phlegon of Tralles, Greek writer