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This article is about the year 120. For other uses, see 120 (number).

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Hadrian visits Britain
• Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain
• An Indian ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian.
• Suetonius becomes Hadrian's secretary ab epistolis.

Asia

• Change of era name from Yuanchu (7th year) to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
• The Scythians dominate western India: Punjab, Sind, the Nord of Gujerat and a portion of central India.

Births

• Irenaeus, Christian bishop and apologist
• Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist, writing in the Greek language.

Deaths

• Plutarch, Greek historian
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian

 

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