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Events July 17 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed in Carthage for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs).Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor.In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and severance of the spinal cord.
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 heresiarchessMelito of Sardis, bishop of Sardis St. Miggin (martyred in Numidia) St. Namphamo and consorts (martyred) St. Symphorian (martyred)
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