Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''

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''). The denomination 189 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

* Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring

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s in the city.

China

* Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han.

By topic

Arts and sciences

* Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''On the Elements According to Hippocrates'').

Religion

* Pope Victor I succeeds Pope Eleuterus as the fourteenth pope, the first from Africa. * Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria, Demetrius of Alexandria becomes Patriarch of Alexandria. * Pantaenus, who was sent by the bishop of Alexandria to India to preach Christianity, meets with little success.

Births

* March 7 – Geta (emperor), Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (d. 211) * Ling Tong, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 217) * Zhang Chunhua, Chinese Nobility, noblewoman and aristocrat (d. 247)

Deaths

* May 13 – Emperor Ling of Han, Ling of Han (or Liu Hong), Chinese emperor (b. 156) * May 24 – Pope Eleutherius, Eleutherius, bishop of Rome (or Catholic Church) * September 22 – He Jin, Chinese Grand Marshal and regent * Ding Yuan (or Jian Yang), Chinese official and warlord * Jian Shuo, Chinese eunuch leader (Ten Attendants) * Empress He (Han dynasty), Lingsi (or He), Chinese empress of the Han Dynasty * Empress Dowager Dong, Xiaoren, Chinese empress dowager of the Han Dynasty

References

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