Events

• Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia.
  • Battle of Tapae
• Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses .
• The Chinese (Tibetan) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia.

Births

Herodes Atticus Greek Rhetoritician

Deaths

• Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire) although he never reached there.
• Saint John the Apostle dies in Ephesus.
• Saint Clement of Rome, Bishop of Rome, Epistle to the Corinthians, during the last decade of the first century.
• Silius Italicus, author of Punicus , the annals of Hannibal during the Second Punic War.