# 150s

The 150s decade ran from January 1, 150, to December 31, 159.

## Events
### 150
#### By place
###### Roman Empire

* The Roman town Forum Hadriani (Voorburg) receives the title of Municipium Aelium Cananefatium, "the town of the Cananefates" (modern Netherlands). The town is awarded with rights to organize markets.
* The Germans of the east move south, into the Carpathians and Black Sea area.
* The Albani appear in the Roman province of Macedonia, specifically in Epirus.

###### Asia

* First and only year of Heping of the Chinese Han dynasty.

###### Americas

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

#### By topic
###### Religion

* Marcion of Sinope produces his Bible canon, consisting of purged versions of the Gospel of Luke and ten Pauline letters (approximate date).

###### Art and science

* The earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) is made (approximate date).
* This is also the approximate date of completion of Ptolemy's monumental work Almagest. The geocentric cosmology contained in it holds sway for 1,400 years.
* Antoninus Liberalis writes a work on mythology (Μεταμορφωσεων Συναγωγη) (approximate date).
* Paper, made in China, arrives in Transoxiana.

### 151
#### By place
###### Asia

* Mytilene and Smyrna are destroyed by an earthquake.
* First year of Yuanjia of the Chinese Han dynasty.

#### By topic
###### Art

* Detail from a rubbing of a stone relief in Wu family shrine (Wuliangci), Jiaxiang, Shandong, is made (Han dynasty).

### 152
#### By place
###### Asia

* The Chinese domination of the Tarim Basin weakens.

### 153
#### By place
###### Roman Empire

* Minor uprisings occur in Roman Egypt against Roman rule.

###### Asia

* Change of era name from Yuanjia (3rd year) to Yongxing of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

### 154
#### By place
###### Roman Empire

* King Eupator of Bosphorus pays tribute to Rome, due to the threat posed by the Alani.
* The Antonine Wall is completed.

###### Asia

* Last (2nd) year of Yongxing era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
* Adalla becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla.

#### By topic
###### Religion

* Anicetus becomes pope of Rome (approximate date).
* Anicetus meets with Polycarp of Smyrna to discuss the Computus, the date of Easter in the Christian liturgical calendar.
* Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Euzois to Patriarch Laurence.

### 155

* the Council of Rome, a pre-ecumenical church council, is held and presided by Bishop of Rome Anicetus.

### 156
#### By place
###### America

* The La Mojarra Stela 1 is produced in Mesoamerica.

#### By topic
###### Religion

* The heresiarch Montanus first appears in Ardaban (Mysia).

### 157
#### By place
###### Roman Empire

* A revolt against Roman rule begins in Dacia.

### 158
#### By place
###### Roman Empire

* The earliest dated use of Sol Invictus, in a dedication from Rome.
* A revolt against Roman rule in Dacia is crushed.

###### China

* Change of era name from Yongshou to Yangxi of the Chinese Han dynasty.

### 159
#### By place
###### India

* In India, the reign of Shivashri Satakarni, as King Satavahana of Andhra, begins.

## Significant people

* Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138–161)

## Births

150
* March 7 – Lucilla, Roman empress (d. 182)
* Cassius Dio, Roman historian (approximate year)
* Clement of Alexandria, Greek theologian (d. 215)
* Gongsun Du, Chinese general and warlord (d. 204)
* Lucius Fabius Cilo, Roman politician (approximate date)
* Monoimus, Arab gnostic and writer (approximate date)
* Nagarjuna, founder of Mahayana "Great Vehicle" (d. c. 250)
* Xu Shao, Chinese official of the Han dynasty (d. 195)
* Yufuluo, Chanyu of the southern Xiongnu (d. 196)
* Zhang Zhongjing, Chinese physician (d. 219)
151
* Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina, daughter of Marcus Aurelius
* Zhong Yao, Chinese official and calligrapher (d. 230)
152
* Bao Xin, Chinese general and warlord (d. 192)
153
* Didia Clara, daughter of Didius Julianus
* Kong Rong, Chinese official and warlord (d. 208)
* Zhang Hong, Chinese official and politician (d. 212)
154
* July 11 – Bardaisan, Syriac gnostic (d. 222)
155
* Cao Cao, Chinese statesman and warlord (d. 220)
* Dio Cassius, Roman historian (d. c. 235)
* Tertullian, Roman Christian theologian (d. c. 240)
* Sun Jian, Chinese general and warlord (d. 191)
156
* Dong Zhao, Chinese official and minister (d. 236)
* Ling of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. 189)
* Pontianus of Spoleto, Christian martyr and saint (d. 175)
* Zhang Zhao, Chinese general and politician (d. 236)
* Zhu Zhi, Chinese general and politician (d. 224)
157
* Gaius Caesonius Macer Rufinianus, Roman politician (d. 237)
* Hua Xin, Chinese official and minister (d. 232)
* Liu Yao, Chinese governor and warlord (d. 198)
* Xun You, Chinese official and statesman (d. 214)
158
* Gaius Caesonius Macer Rufinianus, Roman politician (d. 237)
159
* December 30 – Lady Bian, wife of Cao Cao (d. 230)
* Annia Aurelia Fadilla, daughter of Marcus Aurelius
* Gordian I, Roman emperor (d. 238)
* Lu Zhi, Chinese general (d. 192)

## Deaths

150
* Aspasius, Greek philosopher and writer (approximate date)
* Aśvaghoṣa, Indian philosopher and poet (approximate date)
* Liang Na, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (b. 116)
151
* Kanishka, Indian ruler of the Kushan Empire
* Novatus, Christian saint (approximate date)
152
* January 14 – Markianos, patriarch of Alexandria
* Yan Ming, Chinese empress of the Han Dynasty
153
* Tiberius Julius Rhoemetalces, Roman client king
154
* Euzois, bishop of Byzantium
* Ilseong, Korean ruler of Silla
* Pius I, pope of Rome (approximate date)
155
* Pius I, Roman bishop
* Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (b. AD 65)
156
* Marcus Gavius Maximus, Roman praetorian prefect
* Zhang Daoling, Chinese Taoist master (b. AD 34)
158
* Wang Yi, Chinese librarian and poet (b. AD 89)
159
* Liang Ji, Chinese general and regent
* Liang Nüying, Chinese empress