What is 120?
{{Year nav|120}} {{Year in other calendars}} __NOTOC__ Year '''120''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CXX]]''') was a leap year starting on Sunday of the [[Julian calendar]]. == Events == === Roman Empire === * Emperor [[Hadrian]] visits [[Roman Britain|Britain]]. * [[Foss Dyke]] is constructed in Britain. * An Indian ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian. * [[Suetonius]] becomes Hadrian's secretary ''ab epistolis''. * [[Market Gate of Miletus]], from [[Miletos]], is built. (approximate date) It is now kept at [[Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]], [[Preussischer Kulturbesitz]], [[Antikensammlung]]. === Asia === * Change of era name from ''Yuanchu'' (7th year) to ''Yongning'' of the Chinese Eastern [[Han Dynasty]]. * The [[Scythians]] dominate western [[India]]: [[Punjab region|Punjab]], [[History of Sindh|Sind]], the north of [[Gujerat]] and a portion of central India. == Births == {{births2}} * [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Vettius Valens]], Hellenistic astrologer * [[Irenaeus]], [[Christianity|Christian]] bishop and apologist * [[Lucian]], Syrian [[rhetoric]]ian and [[satire|satirist]], writing in the [[Greek language]] == Deaths == {{deaths2}} * [[Dio Chrysostom]], Greek historian * [[Nicomachus of Gerasa]], Greek mathematician (approx. date) * [[Sextus Pedius]], Roman jurist * Saint [[Matthias of Jerusalem]], Bishop of Jerusalem * [[Marcian of Tortona]] (or in [[117]]), martyred saint * [[Getulius]], [[Saint Hermes]], martyred saints [[Category:120]]