Year 162 (CLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rusticus^[1] and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 915 Ab urbe condita).^[2]

The denomination 162 AD 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.

• Lucius Verus begins a war with the Parthians, due to the invasion of Syria and Armenia by King Vologases IV of Parthia.^[3]

• Arrian, Greek historian and writer, publishes Indica, a work on India and its people.

• Marcus Annius Verus Caesar, one of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius's thirteen children (d. 169)^[4]

• Marcus Annius Libo, the second child and first son to Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina^[5]

Indica in Greek at the Perseus Digital Library, http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0074.tlg002.perseus-grc1:1

Indica in Greek with side-by-side English translation at the Loeb Classics Library, https://www.loebclassics.com/view/arrian-indica/1983/pb_LCL269.307.xml