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Roman Empire

 * — :  is defeated by the forces of Roman Emperor.
 * , which had been the headquarters of Clodius Albinus, is sacked and destroyed.
 * Sixty-four are denounced as accomplices of Albinus and twenty-four are put to death.
 * ,, and are levied by Septimius Severus for his Parthian campaign.
 * Septimius Severus sacks and captures an enormous number of its inhabitants as slaves.
 * Septimius reconstitutes the Province of under an equestrian governor commanding two legions.
 * Severus, who had spared the Senate at the beginning of his reign, now excludes it from controlling the empire by declaring a military dictatorship.

Arts and Sciences

 * major work on medicines, Pharmacologia, is published.

Religion

 * A council is held in.

Births

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Deaths

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