170

This article is about the year 170. For the number, see 170 (number). For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 170 BC. For the engineering group, see 170 (Infrastructure Support) Engineer Group. For the MBTA bus, see 170 (MBTA bus). For other uses, see 170 (disambiguation).

Year 170 (CLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Clarus and Cornelius (or, less frequently, year 923 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 170 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.

170 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	170 CLXX
Ab urbe condita	923
Assyrian calendar	4920
Balinese saka calendar	91–92
Bengali calendar	−424 – −423
Berber calendar	1120
Buddhist calendar	714
Burmese calendar	−468
Byzantine calendar	5678–5679
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2867 or 2660     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2868 or 2661
Coptic calendar	−114 – −113
Discordian calendar	1336
Ethiopian calendar	162–163
Hebrew calendar	3930–3931
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	226–227
- Shaka Samvat	91–92
- Kali Yuga	3270–3271
Holocene calendar	10170
Iranian calendar	452 BP – 451 BP
Islamic calendar	466 BH – 465 BH
Javanese calendar	46–47
Julian calendar	170 CLXX
Korean calendar	2503
Minguo calendar	1742 before ROC 民前1742年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1298
Seleucid era	481/482 AG
Thai solar calendar	712–713
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Bird) 296 or −85 or −857     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dog) 297 or −84 or −856

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Suebian tribes of the Marcomanni cross the Danube and invade Northern Italy. The Roman army (20,000 men) is destroyed near Carnuntum in Pannonia.
• The Marcomanni plunder Opitergium (modern Oderzo) and besiege Aquileia. This is the first time hostile forces have entered Italy since 101 BC.
• Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in Sirmium (Pannonia) his first of 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek.
• The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They reach Eleusina, near Athens, and destroy the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries.^[1]
• Marcus Aurelius orders humane treatment for Christians and slaves throughout the Roman Empire.
• An Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is erected in Rome.
• The Porta Nigra is built in Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier). (approximate date)^[2]

Births

• Guo Jia, Chinese politician and adviser (d. 207)
• Herodian, Roman historian and writer (d. 240)
• Julia Domna, Roman empress consort (d. 217)
• Philostratus, Greek sophist (approximate date)
• Vibia Aurelia Sabina, Marcus Aurelius' last surviving child (d. 217)^[3]

Deaths

• Alexander of Abonoteichus, Greek mystic (b. AD 105)
• An Shigao, Chinese Buddhist missionary (b. AD 148)
• Apuleius, Numidian philosopher and writer (b. AD 124)
• Demonax, Greek philosopher and writer (b. c. AD 70)
• Junius Rusticus, Roman teacher and politician (b. AD 100)
• Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Roman grammarian (b. AD 100)
• Ptolemy, Greek mathematician and astronomer (b. AD 100)