190s

Events and Trends

• Commodus is assassinated on the last day of 192, leading to the Year of the Five Emperors and a period of civil war, which ends when Septimius Severus defeats Clodius Albinus at the Battle of Lugdunum in 197.

Births

Deaths

• Sun Jian of the Wu Kingdom of China was killed in an ambush which destroyed his unit.
• Commodus

Significant people

• Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor

Rulers

• Roman Emperors: Commodus, Pertinax (193), Didius Julianus (193), Septimius Severus, Caracalla (with Severus since 198).

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