2nd century
What happened around the world
Europe
- 165–180 Antonine Plague — Returning legions bring home a disease that kills millions
Asia
- 105 Cai Lun and the invention of paper — Cheap pulp from rags and bark replaces bamboo and silk
- c. 127 Accession of Kanishka — The Kushan king carries Buddhism along the Silk Road
- c. 150 Funan and the port of Óc Eo — A Roman coin of Antoninus Pius turned up in the Mekong delta
- c. 192 Rise of Champa — A Cham sea kingdom that would last some 1,500 years
Americas
- c. 200 Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan — Teotihuacan grows into the largest city in the Americas
Who ruled
- China: dynasties
- Han 202 BC – 220
- Rome and Byzantium
- Marcus Aurelius 96 – 192, Severans 193 – 235