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EVENTS

Roman Empire

---A systematic persecution of Christians begins in Rome under Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius . Many Christians worship secretly.

--- Marcus Aurelius ' son Commodus becomes Imperatur then Augustus as a coequal of his father.

---Churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses them of practicing cannibalism and the incest.

---Martyrdom of 47 Christians in Lyon , Saint Blandina and Pothinus , bishop of Lyon among them.

---The second war of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus against the Quadi and the Marcomanni .

Asia

---Chinese troops suffer a crushing defeat against a confederacy of Central Asian tribes led by the Xianbei (see Wu Hu ).

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S. Polycarpus , S. Blandina and other martyrs in Lyon