This article is about the year. For the number, see 180 (number).
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century |
| Decades: | 150s 160s 170s – 180s – 190s 200s 210s |
| Years: | 177 178 179 – 180 – 181 182 183 |
| 180 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 180 CLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 933 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1664 – -1663 |
| Berber calendar | 1130 |
| Buddhist calendar | 724 |
| Burmese calendar | -458 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5688 – 5689 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十一月十六日 (2816/2876-11-16) — to —
庚申年十一月廿七日(2817/2877-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | -104 – -103 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 172 – 173 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3940 – 3941 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 235 – 236 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 102 – 103 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3281 – 3282 |
| Holocene calendar | 10180 |
| Iranian calendar | 442 BP – 441 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 456 BH – 455 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2513 |
| Thai solar calendar | 723 |
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- The praetorian prefect Tarutenius Paternus achieved a decisive victory against the Quadi.
- Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor. The Era of the Five Good Emperors ends.
- Rome creates a 4 mile wide buffer zone by the Danube.
- Work begins in Rome on the building of a column to commemorate wars conducted by Marcus Aurelius on the Danubian border.
- 180–395—Late Empire in Rome.
- Porta Nigra is built in Germanian Trier.
Europe
China
- This year is often suggested as the first year of the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Oceania
- Lake Taupo erupts, forming ash clouds as far as China and Europe.
By topic
Arts and sciences
- In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.
- Galen's popular work on hygiene is published.
Religion
- July 17—Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage (also in North Africa) for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs)—they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.
- Commodus creates an official cult of the Zoroastrian god Mithra.
Ongoing events
- Marcomannic Wars (166-180)
Births
Deaths
- March 17—Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (b. 121)
- Aulus Gellius, Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)
- Gaius, Roman jurist (approximate date)
- Lucian (approximate date)
- Maximilla, Montanist heresiarchess
- Melito of Sardis, bishop of Sardis
- St. Miggin (martyred in Numidia)
- St. Namphamo and consorts (martyred)
- St. Symphorian (martyred)
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