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The 150s

83 sourced entries across 10 years, inside the 2nd century. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.

150 CE24 entries

  • 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).

151 CE7 entries

  • Mytilene and Smyrna are destroyed by an earthquake.
  • First year of Yuanjia of the Chinese Han dynasty.
  • Detail from a rubbing of a stone relief in Wu family shrine (Wuliangci), Jiaxiang, Shandong, is made (Han dynasty).

152 CE4 entries

  • The Chinese domination of the Tarim Basin weakens.

153 CE6 entries

  • Minor uprisings occur in Roman Egypt against Roman rule.
  • Change of era name from Yuanjia (3rd year) to Yongxing of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

154 CE10 entries

  • Adalla becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla.
  • Anicetus meets with Polycarp of Smyrna to discuss the Computus, the date of Easter in the Christian liturgical calendar.
  • Anicetus becomes pope of Rome (approximate date).

155 CE6 entries

  • The Council of Rome, a pre-ecumenical church council, is held and presided over by Bishop of Rome Anicetus.

156 CE9 entries

  • The La Mojarra Stela 1 is produced in Mesoamerica.
  • The heresiarch Montanus first appears in Ardaban (Mysia).

157 CE6 entries

  • A revolt against Roman rule begins in Dacia.
  • In Jiuzhen (modern day Northern Vietnam), during the second Era of Northern Domination, a rebellion led by Chu Đạt breaks out and lasts for two to three years, until it is quelled by the Han Dynasty, under emperor Huan.

158 CE5 entries

  • A revolt against Roman rule in Dacia is crushed.
  • Change of era name from Yongshou to Yangxi of the Chinese Han dynasty.
  • The earliest dated use of Sol Invictus, in a dedication from Rome.

159 CE6 entries

  • In India, the reign of Shivashri Satakarni, as King Satavahana of Andhra, begins.