Zhang Heng of Han dynasty China invents a hydraulic-powered armillary sphere. Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned. (or was it around 125 BC). Gautamiputra Satakarni, a king of the Andhra dynasty, conquers the Konkan near Bombay. He then controls central India from coast to coast.
Geopolitics & Diplomacy
Gautamiputra Satakarni, a king of the Andhra dynasty, conquers the Konkan near Bombay. He then controls central India from coast to coast.source
Conflict & Security
Change of emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty from Han Andi to Marquis of Beixiang, then to Han Shundi.source
Last (4th) year of the Yanguang era of the Chinese Han dynasty.source
Religion & Belief
The Satires of Juvenal intimate that bread and circuses (panem et circenses) keep the Roman people happy.source
Pope Telesphorus succeeds Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope according to Roman Catholic tradition.source
Technology & Infrastructure
Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, starts to be built (approximate date).source
Zhang Heng of Han dynasty China invents a hydraulic-powered armillary sphere.source
The Pantheon is constructed in Rome, as it stands today.source
Health & Medicine
Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned. (or was it around 125 BC)source
Births
Aulus Gellius, Roman author and grammarian (approximate date)source
Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, Roman politician (d. 193)source
Lucius Ferenius, Dutch potter in Heerlen (approximate date)source
Lucian, Syrian satirist and rhetorician (approximate date)source
Deaths
April 30 – An of Han, Chinese emperor (b. AD 94)source
December 10 – Shao (or Liu Yi), Chinese emperorsource