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Year of the Wood Monkey甲申( at the beginning of the year, water - sheep癸未)
Syria: 455/456 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Roman Empire
- Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus and Titus Statilius Maximus consuls.
- Named after Emperor Antoninus Pius rampart in the Scottish Lowlands, the Antonine Wall is under the governor of Britain, Quintus Lollius Urbicus, is completed.
- The beginning of a campaign in Mauritania to quell an uprising ( end 151 ).
Imperial China
- Han Chongdi becomes the new emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty after the death of Emperor Han Shundi.
Religion
- Marcion breaks with the Roman Christian theology, and founded his own, the Marcionite church in Egypt and Persia remains a competitive model of Catholicism to the 6th century.
- Athenodorus is Bishop of Byzantium.
Died
- Shundi Han, Chinese Emperor (* 115)
- 144: II Polycarp, Bishop of Byzantium