120

Year 120 (CXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. 

 Events 
 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.
 Market Gate of Miletus, from Miletos, is built. (approximate date) It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.
 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 north of Gujerat and a portion of central India.

 Births 

 February 8 – Vettius Valens, Hellenistic astrologer
 Irenaeus, Christian bishop and apologist
 Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist, writing in the Greek language

 Deaths 

 Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian
 Nicomachus of Gerasa, Greek mathematician (approx. date)
 Sextus Pedius, Roman jurist
 Saint Matthias of Jerusalem, Bishop of Jerusalem
 Marcian of Tortona (or in 117), martyred saint
 Getulius, Saint Hermes, martyred saints

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