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Heads of State
Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)
Syria: 477/478 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Roman Empire
China
- An embassy of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius speaks to the Emperor of China.
- Eastern Han Dynasty: First Partisan Prohibition in China.
Religion
- Soterus is Bishop of Rome. He is the successor of Anicetus.
Disasters
- Legionaries returning from the war in the east against the Parthians, drag the Antonine plague in the European parts of the empire. The cemeteries are crowded, Marcus Aurelius tells poor people to bury at government expense. Within a few years die hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people.
Born
Died
- Laurentius, Bishop of Byzantium
- Ma Rong, Chinese scholar (* 79)
- 166: Anicetus, Bishop of Rome (c. 100)
- 166: Celadion, Bishop of Alexandria
- 166: Felicitas and her sons, christian martyr