Gan Ying turns back from Rome
China's envoy to Rome is talked out of it by sailors
General Ban Chao sent Gan Ying to Rome. He reached the 'western sea', where Parthian sailors told him the voyage could take two years and travellers carried three years' supplies. He turned back, though the Roman border was only weeks away overland.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 80 The Colosseum opens — 17 years earlier
Africa
- c. 100 The rise of Aksum — 3 years later
Asia
- 105 Cai Lun and the invention of paper — 8 years later
Alive at the time
- Ban Zhao (aged 52)
- Zhang Heng (aged 19)