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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Medicine: Galen records plague
  Pausanian records a description of the skeleton of the her Ajax (probably fossil mastodon or rhinoceros)
  Galen writes key medical text
• Deaths: Emperor Pius, Marcus Aurelius of Rome

Africa

• First African Christians martyred at Scillium

Europe

• General: Rugiland peoples - Germanic tribe in Germany, Norway, and Italy - first mentioned
• Roman Empire: Death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Pax Romana
  Commodus becomes emperor
  End of Antoine Plague killing 5 million
• Scotland: Romans defeated and return to Hadrian's wall

Middle East

• Syria: End pf Plague of Galen