120

Years: 116 117 118 119 - 120 - 121 122 123 124

Decades: 90s 100s 110s - 120s - 130s 140s 150s

Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century

Alternate uses, see Number 120.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• Change of era name from Yuanchu (7th year) to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
• Roman Emperor Hadrian visits Britain
• Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain

Births

• Irenaeus, Christian bishop and apologist
• Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist, writing in the Greek language.

Deaths

• Plutarch, Greek historian
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian (approximate date)
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian