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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰(at the beginning of earth - hare己卯)

Syria: 451/452 ( year in October )

Events

• Emperor Antoninus Pius and the future emperor Marcus Aurelius are Roman Consuls.
• Roman troops go massively against the tribes of the Picts and reach the line of the Antonine Wall.
• First mention of the settlement Eblana in the area of present-day Dublin by Claudius Ptolemy.

Born

• 140: Donatus, Roman military and Holy († 180 )

Died

• 24 October: Faustina the Elder, Roman Empress (* 105)

• Gaius Bruttius Praesens, Roman politician

• 140: Menelaus, mathematician and astronomer
• 140: Julian of Sora, Christian martyr