168
Year 168 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Paullus. The denomination 168 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his adopted brother Lucius Verus leave Rome, and establish their headquarters at Aquileia.
- The Roman army crosses the Alps into Pannonia, and subdues the Marcomanni at Carnuntum, north of the Danube.
Asia
- Emperor Ling of Han succeeds Emperor Huan of Han as the emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty; the first year of the Jianning era.
Births
- Cao Ren, Chinese general
- Gu Yong, Chinese chancellor
- Li Tong, Chinese general
Deaths
- Anicetus, pope of Rome
- Chen Fan, Chinese official and politician
- Daniel of Padua, Italian bishop and saint
- Dou Wu, Chinese politician and regent
- Huan of Han, Chinese emperor
- Titus [Flavius Boethus], Roman politician
- Titus Furius Victorinus, Roman prefect