150

Events

By place

Roman Empire

The Roman army consists of 400,000 men. Of these, there are ten legions (55,000 men) and 140 auxiliary units (80,000 men, of which half are cavalry) based in the Balkans and along the Danube; 50,000 legionnaires and auxiliaries in Britain; 45,000 in Germany; 20,000 men in Egypt; and 10,000 in Africa and Numidia.

Europe

The Germans of the east move south, into the Carpathians and Black Sea area.

Asia

First and only year of Heping of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

Americas

The Middle Culture period of Mayan civilization ends (approximate date).
The Great Pyramid of the Sun is constructed in Teotihuacan. It is the tallest pre-Columbian building in the Americas.

By topic

Religion

Marcion of Sinope produces his own version of the Gospel of Luke (approximate date).

Arts and sciences

The earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) is made (approximate date).
This is also the approximate date of completition of Ptolemy's monumental work Almagest. The geocentric cosmology contained in it holds sway for 1,400 years.
Antoninus Liberalis writes a work on mythology (Μεταμορφωσεων Συναγωγη) (approximate date).
Paper, made in China, arrives in Turkestan.

Births

Monoimus, Arab gnostic (approximate date)
Nagarjuna, founder of Mahayana "Great Vehicle" (approximate date)
Zhang Zhongjing, Chinese physician (d. 219)
Yufuluo (d. 196)

Deaths

Aśvaghoṣa, Indian poet (approximate date)
Empress Liang Na, wife of Emperor Shun of Han (b. 116)

Translation

The word "150" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Azeri, Banyumasan, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, French, West Frisian, Friulian, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Croatian, Ido, Indonesian, Italian, Hebrew, Javanese, Georgian, Kashubian, Swahili, Latin, Luxembourgish, Hungarian, Macedonian, Malay, Nahuatl, Dutch, Neapolitan, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Uzbek, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sakha, Albanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sranan, Serbian, Sundanese, Finnish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Venetian, Volapük, Waray-Waray.

Translation(s) in other languages: Alemannic: 150er#150, Amharic: 150 እ.ኤ.አ., Arabic: ملحق:150, Bengali: ১৫০, Bihari: १५०, Persian: ۱۵۰ (میلادی), Gan: 150年, Korean: 150년, Bishnupriya Manipuri: মারি ১৫০, Haitian: 150 (almanak jilyen), Lithuanian: 150 m., Marathi: इ.स. १५०, Newar / Nepal Bhasa: १५०, Japanese: 150年, Oriya: ୧୫୦, Pali: १५०, Ripuarian: Joohr 150, Russian: 150 год, Sanskrit: १५०, Thai: พ.ศ. 693, Chinese: 150年.