162

This page relates to the year 162 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the king of the Parthes Vologèse IV sends its Chosroès general in Arménie and invades the Roman Syria.
the governor of Cappadoce, Mr. Sedatius Severianus is crushed with the battle of Elégéia.
the Co-emperor Lucius Verus unloads in Syria with the head of an army to face the Parthes. It is helped in this task by its legates Statius Priscus and especially Avidius Cassius which seizes very quickly the real direction of the operations while Verus is announced by its vices and its ostentation.

Arrien publishes a work on the India and its inhabitants.
Daphnis and Chloé , work of the Greek novelist Longus of Lesbos.
Construction of the Aqueduct of Zaghouan to feed Carthage out of water.
In the honor of his wife Regilla deceased in 160, the Greek speaker Hérode Atticus builds a Odéon (theater) which in spite of its size is covered by a roof.

political Decline of the empire Kusana with died of Kanishka Ier. Its successors would have, at least for the three first, reigned units and would have founded Buddhist cities and monasteries with the Cachemire. Vāsishka would have left inscriptions in the Dekkan in the neighborhoods of Bhopal. Kanishka II would have taken the title of Kaisara (César) but its successors carry purely Indian patronyms. They make more or less independent in the provinces, whereas the center of the empire remains in the Panjab and the Cachemire, until the conquest sassanide in 241.

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