180
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- This article is about the year 180. For other uses, see 180 (number).
| Centuries: | 1st century · 2nd century · 3rd century |
| Decades: | 150s 160s 170s 180s 190s 200s 210s |
| Years: | 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 |
| 180 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 180 CLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 933 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Chinese calendar | 2876 – 2877 己未 – 庚申 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 172 – 173 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3940 – 3941 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 235 – 236 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 102 – 103 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3281 – 3282 |
| Iranian calendar | 442 BP – 441 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 456 BH – 455 BH |
Events
By Place
Roman Empire
- Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor.
- Rome creates a 4 mile wide buffer zone on the Danubian side of the Danube.
- Work begins in Rome on the building of a column to commemorate wars conducted by Marcus Aurelius on the Danubian border.
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.
- Publication of Galen's popular work on hygiene.
Religion
- July 17 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage (also in North Africa) for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs) -- they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.
- Commodus creates an official cult of the Zoroastrian god Mithra.
Births
Deaths
- March 17 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (b. 121)
- Aulus Gellius, Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)
- Gaius, Roman jurist (approximate date)
- Lucian (approximate date)
- Maximilla, Montanist heresiarchess
- Melito of Sardis, bishop of Sardis
- St. Miggin (martyred in Numidia)
- St. Namphamo and consorts (martyred)
- St. Symphorian (martyred)