AD 120

"120 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 120 BC.

Year 120 (CXX) 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 (or, less frequently, year 873 Ab urbe condita). 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.

120 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	120 CXX
Ab urbe condita	873
Assyrian calendar	4870
Balinese saka calendar	41–42
Bengali calendar	−474 – −473
Berber calendar	1070
Buddhist calendar	664
Burmese calendar	−518
Byzantine calendar	5628–5629
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 2817 or 2610     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2818 or 2611
Coptic calendar	−164 – −163
Discordian calendar	1286
Ethiopian calendar	112–113
Hebrew calendar	3880–3881
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	176–177
- Shaka Samvat	41–42
- Kali Yuga	3220–3221
Holocene calendar	10120
Iranian calendar	502 BP – 501 BP
Islamic calendar	517 BH – 516 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	120 CXX
Korean calendar	2453
Minguo calendar	1792 before ROC 民前1792年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1348
Seleucid era	431/432 AG
Thai solar calendar	662–663
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 246 or −135 or −907     — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 247 or −134 or −906

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.
• Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain.
• A Kushan ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian.
• Suetonius becomes Hadrian's secretary ab epistolis.
• Approximate date
  • Legio IX Hispana last known to be in existence.
  • The Market Gate of Miletus is built at Miletos (moved in modern times to Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung).

Asia

• Change of era name from Yuanchu (7th year) 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 (d. 175)
• Irenaeus, Greek bishop and apologist (approximate date)
• Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist (approximate date)
• Tatian, Syrian Christian writer and theologian (d. 180)

Deaths

• Ban Zhao, Chinese historian and philosopher (b. AD 49)
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian (approximate date)
• Faustinus and Jovita, Roman Christian martyrs
• Getulius, Roman officer and Christian martyr
• Hermes, Greek Christian martyr and saint
• Marcian of Tortona, Roman bishop (or 117)
• Matthias of Jerusalem, bishop of Jerusalem
• Nicomachus, Greek mathematician (b. AD 60)
• Plutarch, Greek philosopher (approximate date)
• Sextus Pedius, Roman jurist (b. AD 50)
• Tacitus, Roman historian^[1]