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1 Events

• Roman Empire governed by the ' Five Good Emperors' ( 96 - 180) - Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius.

2 Significant persons

• Cai Lun, Chinese inventor
• Galen, medical writer
• Saint Irenaeus
• Pliny the YoungerCaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus ( 63 ca. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger was a lawyer, an author and a scientist of Ancient Rome. Born in Como, Italy, Pliny the Younger was the nephew of Pliny the Elder, who is considered by many to be the greate
• PlutarchMestrius Plutarch (c. 120) was a Greek historian/ biographer and essayist. Born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Mestrius Plutarch travelled widely in the Medite
• PtolemyThis article is about the geographer and astronomer Ptolemy. For Alexander the Great's general, see Ptolemy I of Egypt. For others, see Ptolemy (disambiguation). Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Klaudios Ptolemaios; A. circa 85 circa 165), known in English as
• Trajan
• Hadrian
• Antoninus Pius
• Marcus Aurelius
• CommodusMarcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus ( August 31, 161 December 31, 192 A. was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought
• Septimius SeverusLucius Septimius Severus ( April 11, 146 February 4, 211) was Roman emperor from April 9, 193 to 211. Some scholars claim that he was a Berber, and others claim that he was Punic. He was born at Leptis Magna (62 miles south east of Carthage), on the north

3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Cai Lun invents paper (c. 105)
• Ptolemy compiles a catalogue of all stars visible to the naked eye.

4 Decades and years

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