150 CE

The Great Pyramid of the Sun is constructed in Teotihuacan. It is the tallest pre-Columbian building in the Americas. Marcion of Sinope produces his Bible canon, consisting of purged versions of the Gospel of Luke and ten Pauline letters (approximate date). The Middle Culture period of Mayan civilization ends (approximate date).

In the 150s, the 2nd century.

Exploration & Expansion

  • Paper, made in China, arrives in Transoxiana.source
  • The Germans of the east move south, into the Carpathians and Black Sea area.source
  • The Albani appear in the Roman province of Macedonia, specifically in Epirus.source

Religion & Belief

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

Technology & Infrastructure

  • The Great Pyramid of the Sun is constructed in Teotihuacan. It is the tallest pre-Columbian building in the Americas.source

Science & Discovery

  • 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.source
  • Antoninus Liberalis writes a work on mythology (Μεταμορφωσεων Συναγωγη) (approximate date).source

Climate & Environment

  • The Middle Culture period of Mayan civilization ends (approximate date).source

Culture & Society

  • 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.source
  • First and only year of the "Heping" era of the Han dynasty in China.source
  • The earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) is made (approximate date).source

Births

  • March 7 – Lucilla, Roman empress (died 182)source
  • Zhang Zhongjing, Chinese physician (died 219)source
  • Lucius Fabius Cilo, Roman politician (approximate date)source
  • Yufuluo, Chanyu of the southern Xiongnu (died 196)source
  • Monoimus, Arab gnostic and writer (approximate date)source
  • Cassius Dio, Roman historian (approximate year)source
  • Xu Shao, Chinese official of the Han dynasty (died 195)source
  • Clement of Alexandria, Greek theologian (died 215)source
  • Nagarjuna, founder of Mahayana "Great Vehicle" (died c. 250)source
  • Gongsun Du, Chinese general and warlord (died 204)source

Deaths

  • Liang Na, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (born 116)source
  • Aśvaghoṣa, Indian philosopher and poet (approximate date)source
  • Aspasius, Greek philosopher and writer (approximate date)source