177

Year 177 (CLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 930 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 177 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
177 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar177
CLXXVII
Ab urbe condita930
Assyrian calendar4927
Balinese saka calendar98–99
Bengali calendar−416
Berber calendar1127
Buddhist calendar721
Burmese calendar−461
Byzantine calendar5685–5686
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
2873 or 2813
     to 
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
2874 or 2814
Coptic calendar−107 – −106
Discordian calendar1343
Ethiopian calendar169–170
Hebrew calendar3937–3938
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat233–234
 - Shaka Samvat98–99
 - Kali Yuga3277–3278
Holocene calendar10177
Iranian calendar445 BP – 444 BP
Islamic calendar459 BH – 458 BH
Javanese calendar53–54
Julian calendar177
CLXXVII
Korean calendar2510
Minguo calendar1735 before ROC
民前1735年
Nanakshahi calendar−1291
Seleucid era488/489 AG
Thai solar calendar719–720
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
303 or −78 or −850
     to 
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
304 or −77 or −849

Events

Roman Empire

  • Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar (age 15) and Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus become Roman Consuls.
  • Commodus is given the title Augustus, and is made co-emperor, with the same status as his father, Marcus Aurelius.
  • A systematic persecution of Christians begins in Rome; the followers take refuge in the catacombs.
  • The churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing cannibalism.
  • Forty-seven Christians are martyred in Lyon (Saint Blandina and Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, are among them).[1]
  • Second Marcomannic War: Marcus Aurelius and Commodus begin war against the Quadi and the Marcomanni.

Asia

  • Chinese troops suffer a crushing defeat against a confederacy of Central Asian tribes, led by the Xianbei (see Wu Hu).

Births

  • Cao Ang, Chinese warlord and son of Cao Cao (d.197)
  • Huo Jun, Chinese general of the Eastern Han (d. 216)
  • Lucius Aurelius Commodus Pompeianus, Roman politician
  • Sun Yu, Chinese warlord and cousin of Sun Quan (d. 215)
  • Wang Can, Chinese politician, scholar and poet (d. 217)
  • Zhu Huan, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 238)

Deaths

  • Blandina, Christian martyr and saint (b. 162)
  • Herodes Atticus, Greek politician (b. AD 101)
  • Polycarpus, Greco-Roman bishop (b. AD 69)
  • Pothinus, Roman bishop and martyr (b. AD 87)

References

  1. Demougeot, Émilienne (1966). "À propos des martyrs lyonnais de 177". Revue des Études Anciennes. 68 (3): 323–331. doi:10.3406/rea.1966.3779.
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