This page relates to the year 120 Calendrier Julien.

Events

India

• the Scythes (Shaka) dominate the west of the India: Panjab, Sind, North of the Goujerat and part of the central India (120 - 380).
• Indian Embassy near Hadrian.
• Indian Colony with Alexandria.
• Stûpa of Amaravati representing the birth of Buddha.
• Fourth Buddhist “council” with Kundalavana, which defines the bases of Buddhism of the “Grand Vehicle”.

Europe

• Suétone secretary ab epistolis (in charge of the correspondence of Hadrian).
• Pasteur , work of the Christian prophet Hermas.
• Construction of the temple of Bacchus to Baalbek.

Births in 120

Death in 120

• Saturnin.

• Tacit, historian.

Map-bms: 120

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