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EVENTS

Roman Empire

--- Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor .

---Rome creates a 4 mile wide buffer zone on the Danubian side of the Danube

---Work begins in Rome on the building of a column to commemorate wars conducted by Marcus Aurelius on the Danubian border.

Europe

---The Goths reach the banks of the Black Sea .

Religion

--- July 17 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed in Carthage for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs) -- the had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.

---Commodus creates a cult of Mithra .

Arts and Sciences

---In his ''Methodus Medendo'', Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.

---Publication of Galen's popular work on hygiene.

BIRTHS

DEATHS

March 17 - Marcus Aurelius , Roman Emperor (b. 121 )

Aulus Gellius , Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)

Gaius , Roman jurist (approximate date)

Lucian (approximate date)

Maximilla, Montanist heresiarchess

Melito Of Sardis , bishop of Sardis

St. Miggin (martyred in Numidia )

St. Namphamo and consorts (martyred)

St. Symphorian (martyred)