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[[File:Commodus Musei Capitolini MC1120.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Emperor [[Commodus]] as [[Hercules]]]]
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Year '''180''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CLXXX]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Friday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Rusticus and Condianus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 933 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 180 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
== Events ==
=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* The [[Quadi]] are chased westwards, deeper into [[Germania]]. The [[Praetorian prefect]], Tarutenius Paternus, achieves a decisive victory against the [[Germanic tribes]].
* [[March 17]] &ndash; Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]] dies after a week's illness at his camp in [[Vindobona]] (modern [[Vienna]]). He is succeeded by his son [[Commodus]] (age 18).
* The Era of the [[Five Good Emperors]] ends.
* [[Rome]] creates a 4-mile wide buffer zone by the [[Danube]].
* Work begins in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] on the building of the [[Column of Marcus Aurelius]].
* 180&ndash;[[395]] &ndash; [[Roman Empire#Transition from classical to late_antiquity|Late Empire]] in Rome.
* Northern British from beyond [[Hadrian's Wall]] invade the North of modern-day England, causing Emperor [[Commodus]] to allow swathes of Northern cities to establish city walls.
* [[Cassius Dio]] arrives in Rome and becomes a Senator<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dio-Cassius | access-date=February 24, 2024 | title=Cassius Dio | date=January 1, 2024 | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>
==== Europe ====
* The [[Goths]] reach the banks of the [[Black Sea]].
==== Oceania ====
* [[Lake Taupō]] in [[New Zealand]] erupts, forming ash clouds as far as China and [[Europe]].
=== By topic ===
==== Arts and sciences ====
* In his ''Methodus Medendo'', Greek physician [[Galen]] describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.
* Galen's popular work on [[hygiene]] is published.
==== Religion ====
* [[July 17]] &ndash; Twelve Christian inhabitants of [[Scillium]] in [[Numidia]] are executed in [[Carthage]] (also in [[North Africa]]) (known as the [[Scillitan Martyrs]]) &ndash; they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.
* Commodus creates an official cult of the [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] god [[Mithra]].
== Births ==
* [[Ardashir I]], founder of the [[Sasanian Empire]] (d. [[242]])
* [[Johanan bar Nappaha]], Jewish [[rabbi]] (d. [[279]])
* [[Julia Soaemias]], mother of [[Elagabalus]] (d. [[222]])
* [[Sima Fu]], Chinese prince and statesman (d. [[272]])
== Deaths ==
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Marcus Aurelius]], Roman emperor (b. [[AD 121|121]])
* [[Aulus Gellius]], Roman author and grammarian (b. [[125 AD]])
* [[Gaius (jurist)|Gaius]], Roman jurist and writer (approximate date)
* [[Hegesippus (chronicler)|Hegesippus]], Christian chronicler and writer (b. [[AD 110|110]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Bruce D. |title=Echoes of Contempt: A History of Judeophobia and the Christian Church |date=2018 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=9781532655111 |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJ2DDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Lucian|Lucian of Samosata]], Syrian rhetorician (b. [[125 AD]])
* [[Melito of Sardis]], bishop of [[Sardis]] (approximate date)
* [[Pinytus]], bishop of [[Knossos]] (approximate date)
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