AD 120
Year 120 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Fulvus. The denomination 120 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.
- Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain.
- An Indian ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian.
- Suetonius becomes Hadrian's secretary ab epistolis.
- Approximate date
- * Legio IX Hispana last known to be in existence.
- * Market Gate of Miletus built at Miletos.
Asia
- Change of era name from Yuanchu to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
- The Scythians dominate western India: Punjab, Sind, the north of Gujarat and a portion of central India.
Births
- February 8 - Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer
- Irenaeus, Greek bishop and apologist
- Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist
- Tatian, Syrian Christian writer and theologian
Deaths
- Ban Zhao, Chinese historian and philosopher
- Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian
- Faustinus and Jovita, Roman Christian martyrs
- Getulius, Roman officer and Christian martyr
- Hermes, Greek Christian martyr and saint
- Marcian of Tortona, Roman bishop
- Matthias of Jerusalem, bishop of Jerusalem
- Nicomachus, Greek mathematician
- Plutarch, Greek philosopher
- Sextus Pedius, Roman jurist
