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Events relating to asia
Hadrian, visiting Jerusalem, decides to rebuild it as a Roman city - an act which provokes the final Jewish uprising
Simon Bar-Cochba drives the Romans out of Jerusalem and holds it for three years, until a large Roman army recovers the city
After the Roman recovery of Jerusalem from Simon Bar-Cochba, all Jews are expelled from the city
A new doctor, Galen, is appointed to look after the gladiators at Pergamum
The Romans annexe Doura-Europus, giving it its most prosperious period as a frontier town between the Roman and Persian empires
The Han emperor in China has the six main Confucian classics engraved in stone, so that scholars may take rubbings - a first step towards printing
Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi compiles the Mishnah, a six-part digest of the Oral Torah
The rock tombs of prosperous Petra, now incorporated in the Roman empire, are carved in the cliffs as classical temples
Ardashir is crowned king of Fars - a first step towards his founding of the Sassanian dynasty in Persia
The Han dynasty is brought to an end, after more than four centuries, by decades of peasant unrest
Ardashir, the Persian king, commissions a relief of himself in triumphant mood - carved high on a rock face at Naqsh-e Rustam
A house in Doura-Europus is adapted for Christian worship - the earliest surviving example of its kind
Origen, living in Caesarea, compiles the Hexapla, displaying versions of the Old Testament in six columns for comparative study
The Goths split into two major groups, the Visigoths northwest of the Black Sea and the Ostrogoths further east
The Persian prophet Mani establishes the dualistic Manichaean religion
The emperor Aurelian, grateful for the apparent assistance of a Syrian sun god, establishes the cult of the Unconquered Sun - whose birthday is December 25
The Chinese transform the toe loop of nomadic horsemen into the metal stirrup
Ten dynasties and nineteen kingdoms jockey for power in the three centuries after the fall of the Han dynasty
The emperor Diocletian initiates a sustained persecution of Christians in the Roman empire
The territory of the Gupta dynasty is extended by Chandra Gupta, to include most of the great plain of the Ganges
Constantine convenes a council of 200 bishops at Nicaea to discuss the beliefs of Arius, which are deemed to be heresy
Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, discovers in Jerusalem the cross on which Christ died - or so it is later claimed
Constantine is at last baptized a Christian in Nicomedia, just a few days before his death
The clan ruling the Yamato plain becomes so powerful that its chieftain is seen as the emperor of Japan
