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Years: 173 174 175 176 - 177 - 178 179 180 181

Decades: 140s 150s 160s - 170s - 180s 190s 200s

Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century

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).

Births

Deaths

• S. Polycarpus, S. Blandina and other martyrs in Lyonaf:177

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