150 facts for kids

Year 150 (CL) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• The Roman town Forum Hadriani gets the title of "the town of the Cananefates". The town is allowed to have markets.
• The Germans of the east move south, into the Carpathians and Black Sea area.
• The Albani appear in the Roman province of Macedon.

Asia

• First and only year of Heping of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

Americas

• The Middle Culture period of Mayan civilization ends (approximate date).
• The Great Pyramid of the Sun is built in Teotihuacan. It is the tallest pre-Columbian building in the Americas.

By topic

Religion

• Marcion of Sinope makes his bible canon. It has versions of the Gospel of Luke and ten Pauline letters (approximate date).

Arts and sciences

• The earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) is made (approximate date).
• Completion of Ptolemy's monumental work Almagest. The geocentric cosmology is followed for 1,400 years.
• Antoninus Liberalis writes a work on mythology (approximate date).
• Paper, made in China, arrives in Transoxiana.

Births

• Monoimus, Arab gnostic (approximate date)
• Nagarjuna, founder of Mahayana "Great Vehicle" (approximate date)
• Zhang Zhongjing, Chinese physician (d. 219)
• Yufuluo (d. 196)

Deaths

• Aśvaghoṣa, Indian poet (approximate date)
• Empress Liang Na, wife of Emperor Shun of Han (b. 116)