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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century
Decades:	150s  160s  170s  – 180s –  190s  200s  210s
Years:	177 178 179 – 180 – 181 182 183

180 by topic v • d • e

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

180 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	180 CLXXX
Ab urbe condita	933
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1664 – -1663
Bengali calendar	-413
Berber calendar	1130
Buddhist calendar	724
Burmese calendar	-458
Byzantine calendar	5688 – 5689
Chinese calendar	己未年十一月十六日 (2816/2876-11-16) — to — 庚申年十一月廿七日 (2817/2877-11-27)
Coptic calendar	-104 – -103
Ethiopian calendar	172 – 173
Hebrew calendar	3940 – 3941
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	235 – 236
- Shaka Samvat	102 – 103
- Kali Yuga	3281 – 3282
Holocene calendar	10180
Iranian calendar	442 BP – 441 BP
Islamic calendar	456 BH – 455 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2513
Thai solar calendar	723
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Roman Empire

• The praetorian prefect Tarutenius Paternus achieved a decisive victory against the Quadi.
• Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor. The Era of the Five Good Emperors ends.
• Rome creates a 4 mile wide buffer zone by the Danube.
• Work begins in Rome on the building of a column to commemorate wars conducted by Marcus Aurelius on the Danubian border.
• 180–395—Late Empire in Rome.
• Porta Nigra is built in Germanian Trier.

[edit] Europe

• The Goths reach the banks of the Black Sea.

[edit] China

• This year is often suggested as the first year of the Three Kingdoms period of China.

[edit] Oceania

• Lake Taupo erupts, forming ash clouds as far as China and Europe.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Arts and sciences

• In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.
• Galen's popular work on hygiene is published.

[edit] Religion

• July 17—Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage (also in North Africa) for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs)—they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.
• Commodus creates an official cult of the Zoroastrian god Mithra.

[edit] Ongoing events

• Marcomannic Wars (166-180)

[edit] Births

• Sima Fu, younger brother of Sima Yi (d. 272)

[edit] 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)