120

Year 120 (CXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

120 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	120 CXX
Ab urbe condita	873
Assyrian calendar	4870
Balinese saka calendar	41–42
Bengali calendar	−473
Berber calendar	1070
Buddhist calendar	664
Burmese calendar	−518
Byzantine calendar	5628–5629
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 2816 or 2756     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2817 or 2757
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	ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 246 or −135 or −907     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 247 or −134 or −906

Events

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.
• Market Gate of Miletus, from Miletos, is built. (approximate date) It is now kept at 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 Gujerat and a portion of central India.

Births

• February 8 – Vettius Valens, Hellenistic astrologer
• Irenaeus, Christian bishop and apologist
• Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist, writing in the Greek language

Deaths

• Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian
• Nicomachus of Gerasa, Greek mathematician (approx. date)
• Sextus Pedius, Roman jurist
• Saint Matthias of Jerusalem, Bishop of Jerusalem
• Marcian of Tortona (or in 117), martyred saint
• Getulius, Saint Hermes, martyred saints