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This article is about the year 150. For other uses, see 150 (number).

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

• The Roman army consists of 400,000 men. Of these, there are ten legions (55,000 men) and 140 auxiliary units (80,000 men, of which half are cavalry) based in the Balkans and along the Danube; 50,000 legionaires and auxiliaries in Britain; 45,000 in Germany; 20,000 men in Egypt; and 10,000 in Africa and Numidia.

Europe

• The Germans of the east, move south into the Carpathians and Black Sea area.

Asia

• First and only year of Heping of the Chinese Han Dynasty

Americas

• The Middle Culture period of Mayan civilization ends (approximate date).
• Construction of the Great Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan. It is the tallest pre-Columbian building in the Americas.

By Topic

Religion

• Marcion of Sinope produces his own version of the Gospel of Luke (approximate date).

Arts and Sciences

• The Earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) was made (approximate date).
• This is also the approximate date of completition of Ptolemy's monumental work Almagest. The geocentric cosmology contained in it held sway for 1400 years
• Antoninus Liberalis writes a work on mythology (Μεταμορφωσεων Συναγωγη) (approximate date)
• Paper, made in China, arrives in Turkestan.

Births

• Monoimus, Arab gnostic (approximate date)

Deaths

 

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