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  • China
    166
    Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

    Sino-Roman relations

    China
    166

    A Roman envoy arrived at the Han capital Luoyang.




  • Daqin (Present-Day in China)
    166
    Roman Empire

    Roman embassy from "Daqin"

    Daqin (Present-Day in China)
    166

    It is possible that an alleged Roman embassy from "Daqin" that arrived in Eastern Han China in 166 via a Roman maritime route into the South China Sea, landing at Jiaozhou (northern Vietnam) and bearing gifts for the Emperor Huan of Han (r. 146–168), was sent by Marcus Aurelius, or his predecessor Antoninus Pius (the confusion stems from the transliteration of their names as "Andun", Chinese: 安敦).




  • Han, China
    166
    Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

    Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions

    Han, China
    166

    Several ministers and some two hundred university students, who had opposed the influence of corrupt eunuchs at the royal court, were arrested.




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