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This article is about the year 180. For other uses, see 180 (number).
| Centuries: | 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century |
| Decades: | 150s 160s 170s - 180s - 190s 200s 210s |
| Years: | 177 178 179 - 180 - 181 182 183 |
| 180 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 180 CLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 933 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1664 – -1663 |
| Berber calendar | 1130 |
| Buddhist calendar | 724 |
| Burmese calendar | -458 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5688 – 5689 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十一月十六日 (2816/2876-11-16) — to —
庚申年十一月廿七日(2817/2877-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | -104 – -103 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 172 – 173 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3940 – 3941 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 235 – 236 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 102 – 103 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3281 – 3282 |
| Holocene calendar | 10180 |
| Iranian calendar | 442 BP – 441 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 456 BH – 455 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2513 |
| Thai solar calendar | 723 |
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- The praetorian prefect Tarutenius Paternus achieved a decisive victory against the Quadi.
- Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor. The Era of the Five Good Emperors ends.
- Rome creates a 4 mile wide buffer zone by the Danube.
- Work begins in Rome on the building of a column to commemorate wars conducted by Marcus Aurelius on the Danubian border.
- 180–395 — Late Empire in Rome.
- Porta Nigra is built in Germanian Trier.
Europe
China
- This year is often suggested as the first year of the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Oceania
- Lake Taupo erupts, forming ash clouds as far as China and Europe.
By topic
Arts and Sciences
- In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.
- Galen's popular work on hygiene is published.
Religion
- July 17 — Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage (also in North Africa) for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs) — they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.
- Commodus creates an official cult of the Zoroastrian god Mithra.
Births
Deaths
- March 17 — Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (b. 121)
- Aulus Gellius, Latin author and grammarian (approximate date)
- Gaius, Roman jurist (approximate date)
- Lucian (approximate date)
- Maximilla, Montanist heresiarchess
- Melito of Sardis, bishop of Sardis
- St. Miggin (martyred in Numidia)
- St. Namphamo and consorts (martyred)
- St. Symphorian (martyred)
