169 CE

Marcus Aurelius forces his daughter Lucilla into marriage with Claudius Pompeianus. Marcomannic Wars: Germanic tribes invade the frontiers of the Roman Empire, specifically the provinces of Raetia and Moesia. Confucian scholars who had denounced the court eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital of Luoyang and official life during the second episode of the Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions, which does not formally end until 184 with the onslaught of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

In the 160s, the 2nd century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Galen moves back to Rome for good.source

Conflict & Security

  • Marcomannic Wars: Germanic tribes invade the frontiers of the Roman Empire, specifically the provinces of Raetia and Moesia.source
  • Northern African Moors invade what is now Spain.source
  • Confucian scholars who had denounced the court eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital of Luoyang and official life during the second episode of the Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions, which does not formally end until 184 with the onslaught of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.source

Religion & Belief

  • Theophilus of Antioch becomes patriarch of Antioch.source
  • Marcus Aurelius becomes sole Roman Emperor upon the death of Lucius Verus.source
  • Pertinax succeeds Alypius as bishop of Byzantium.source

Crime & Justice

  • Lucian demonstrates the absurdity of fatalism.source

Culture & Society

  • Marcus Aurelius forces his daughter Lucilla into marriage with Claudius Pompeianus.source

Births

  • Jingū, Japanese empress and regent (died 269)source
  • Zhang Liao, Chinese general (died 222)source

Deaths