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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Dog庚戌(at the beginning of earth -Hahn己酉)
Syria: 481/482 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- The governor of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, Didius Julianus can build in Flanders the Castellum Radanum the modern city of Aardenburg.
- During the first Marcomanni war, the Marcomanni and Quadi besiege the city of Aquileia and destruction of adjacent Opitergium completely.
Culture
- 170: Apuleius Metamorphoses of Madauros published, the first fully preserved ancient Roman.
Born
- 170: Claudius Aelianus, sophist and rhetorician ( † after 221)
Died
- Marcus Claudius Fronto, Roman senator and commander
- Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Roman rhetorician ( * 100)
- Severinus, Exuperius and Felician, Christian martyr and saint
- 170: Apuleius, Roman writer and philosopher (c. 123 )
- 170: Constantius of Perugia, legendary Bishop of Perugia, Martyr
- 170: Hermias, Christian martyr and saint
- 170: Quintus Junius Rusticus, a Roman politician, philosopher of the Stoic teacher of Marcus Aurelius
- After 170: Dionysius of Corinth, Bishop of Corinth, Saint