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Year '''177''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CLXXVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Plautius''' (or, less frequently, '''year 930 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 177 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Commodus|Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar]] (age 15) and [[Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus]] become [[Roman Consul]]s.
* Commodus is given the title ''[[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]]'', and is made co-emperor, with the same status as his father, Marcus Aurelius.
* A systematic persecution of [[Christianity|Christians]] begins in [[Rome]]; the followers take refuge in the [[catacombs of Rome|catacombs]].
* The churches in southern [[Gaul]] are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]]. 
* Forty-eight Christians are martyred in [[Lyon]] ([[Saint]] [[Blandina]] and [[Saint Pothinus|Pothinus]], [[bishop of Lyon]], are among them).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Demougeot|first=Émilienne|date=1966|title=À propos des martyrs lyonnais de 177|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rea_0035-2004_1966_num_68_3_3779|journal=Revue des Études Anciennes|volume=68|issue=3|pages=323–331|doi=10.3406/rea.1966.3779}}</ref><ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Christian_Biography_and_Literature_to_the_End_of_the_Sixth_Century/Pothinus,_bp._of_Lyons,_martyr Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Pothinus, bp. of Lyons, martyr], accessed 28 January 2023</ref>
* [[Marcomannic Wars|Second Marcomannic War]]: Marcus Aurelius and Commodus begin war against the [[Quadi]] and the [[Marcomanni]].

==== Asia ====
* Chinese troops suffer a crushing defeat against a confederacy of [[Central Asia]]n tribes, led by the [[Xianbei]] (see [[Five Barbarians|Wu Hu]]).
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== Births ==
* [[Cao Ang]], Chinese warlord and son of [[Cao Cao]] (d.[[197]])
* [[Huo Jun]], Chinese general of the [[Han dynasty#Eastern Han|Eastern Han]] (d. [[216]])
* [[Lucius Aurelius Commodus Pompeianus]], Roman politician 
* [[Sun Yu (Han dynasty)|Sun Yu]], Chinese warlord and cousin of [[Sun Quan]] (d. [[215]])
* [[Wang Can]], Chinese politician, scholar and poet (d. [[217]])
* [[Zhu Huan]], Chinese general of the [[Eastern Wu]] state (d. [[238]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Blandina]], Christian [[martyr]] and saint (b. [[162]])
* [[Herodes Atticus]], Greek politician (b. [[AD 101]])
* [[Polycarp]]us, Greco-Roman bishop (b. [[AD 69]])
* [[Saint Pothinus|Pothinus]], Roman bishop and martyr (b. [[AD 87]])

== References ==
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