Events

• Change of era name from Yuanchu (7th year) to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
• Roman Emperor Hadrian visits Britain
• Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain

Births

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

Deaths

• Plutarch, Greek historian
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian (approximate date)
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian