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Calendar overview 140
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Emperor Antoninus Pius and Mark Aurel are Roman consuls and lead a campaign against the Picts . |
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140 in other calendars | |
Ethiopian calendar | 132/133 |
Buddhist calendar | 683/684 (southern Buddhism); 682/683 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 47th (48th) cycle , year of the metal dragon庚辰 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Rabbit 己卯) |
Greek calendar | 3rd / 4th Year of the 229th Olympiad |
Jewish calendar | 3900/01 (August 30/31) |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita DCCCXCIII (893) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 450/451 (turn of the year April); Syria: 451/452 (New Year October) |
Spanish era | 178 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 196/197 (turn of the year April) |
Events
- Emperor Antoninus Pius and the later Emperor Mark Aurel are Roman consuls .
- Roman troops take massive action against the Picts and reach the line of the Antonine Wall .
- First mention of the settlement Eblana in the area of today's Dublin by Claudius Ptolemy .
- around 140: Huvischka becomes Great King of the Kushan Empire .
Born
Died
- October 24th : Faustina the Elder , Roman Empress (* 105 )
- Gaius Bruttius Praesens , Roman politician
- around 140: Menelaus , mathematician and astronomer
- around 140: Julianus von Sora , Christian martyr
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