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Year '''181''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CLXXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Burrus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 934 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 181 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 ====
* Imperator [[Commodus|Lucius Aurelius Commodus]] and [[Lucius Antistius Burrus]] become [[Roman Consul]]s. 
* The [[Antonine Wall]] is overrun by the [[Picts]] in [[Britannia (Roman province)|Britannia]] (approximate date).

==== Oceania ====
* The [[Taupō Volcano|volcano]] associated with [[Lake Taupō]] in [[New Zealand]] [[Hatepe eruption|erupts]], one of the largest on Earth in the last 5,000 years. The effects of this eruption are seen as far away as [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] and [[China]].<ref>[http://www.laketauponz.com/aboutlaketaupo.cfm?method=displaysubsection&sectionid=73dea3d0-efad-ba3f-9d50-1c4db6b33ec3 Lake Taupo Official Site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312071957/https://www.laketauponz.com/aboutlaketaupo.cfm?method=displaysubsection&sectionid=73dea3d0-efad-ba3f-9d50-1c4db6b33ec3 |date=March 12, 2007 }}</ref>
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== Births ==
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Emperor Xian of Han|Xian of Han]], Chinese emperor (d. [[234]])
* [[Zhuge Liang]], Chinese chancellor and [[regent]] (d. 234)

== Deaths ==
* [[Aelius Aristides]], Greek [[orator]] and writer (b. [[AD 117|117]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wee |first1=John Z. |title=The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine |date=2017 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004356771 |page=247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zSk_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA247|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Cao Jie (eunuch)|Cao Jie]], Chinese court [[eunuch]] and official

== References ==
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