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Roman Empire
Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.
Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain.
An Indian ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian.
Suetonius becomes Hadrian's secretary ab epistolis.
Approximate date
Legio IX Hispana last known to be in existence.
Market Gate of Miletus built at Miletos. (Moved in modern times to Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.)
Asia
Change of era name from Yuanchu (7th year) to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Scythians dominate western India: Punjab, Sind, the north of Gujerat and a portion of central India.
Roman Empire
Roman settlement in present-day Wiesbaden, Germany is first mentioned.
Emperor Hadrian fixes the border between Roman Britain and Caledonia on a line running from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth.
Construction of the Temple of Venus and Roma begins in Rome.
Asia
Era name changes from Yongning (2nd year) to Jianguang in the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
Roman Empire
Emperor Hadrian orders that a 73-mile (117-kilometer) wall be built to mark the northern Roman Empire while personally visiting the area. Hadrian's Wall, as it comes to be known, is intended to keep the Caledonians, Picts and other tribes at bay.
Vindolanda a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) in northern England is garrisoned by cohort VIIII Batavorum.
September 13 – The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
Hadrian gives up the territories conquered in Scotland.
Asia
Change of era name from Jianguang (2nd year) to Yanguang of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
Roman Empire
Emperor Hadrian averts a war with Parthia by a personal meeting with Osroes I.
Housesteads Fort is constructed on Hadrian's Wall north of Bardon Mill.
Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli is built.
Europe
Mug Nuadat defeats the High King of Ireland, Conn of the Hundred Battles.
Asia
In China, Ban Yong, son of Ban Chao, reestablishes the Chinese control over the Tarim Basin.
The Chinese government establishes Aide of the Western Regions over the Tarim Basin.
Arts and sciences
Chinese scientist Zhang Heng corrects the calendar to bring it into line with the four seasons.
Roman Empire
Emperor Hadrian begins to rebuild the Olympeion in Athens.
Antinous becomes Hadrian's beloved companion on his journeys through the Roman Empire.
During a voyage to Greece, Hadrian is initiated in the ancient rites known as the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Asia
In northern India, Nahapana, king of the Scythians, is defeated and dies in battle while fighting against King Andhra Gautamiputra Satakarni. This defeat destroys the Scythian dynasty of Ksaharâtas.
Roman Empire
The Pantheon is constructed in (Rome) as it stands today by Hadrian.
Emperor Hadrian establishes the Panhellenion.
Hadrian distributes imperial lands to small farmers.
Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is started to be built (approximate date).
Africa
Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned.
Asia
Last (4th) year of the Yanguang era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
Change of emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty from Han Andi to Marquis of Beixiang, then to Han Shundi.
Gautamiputra Satakarni, a king of the Andhra dynasty, destroys the kingdom of Maharashtra near Bombay. He now controls central India from coast to coast.
Zhang Heng of Han Dynasty China invents a hydraulic-powered armillary sphere.
Arts and sciences
The Satires of Juvenal intimate that bread and circuses (panem et circenses) keep the Roman people happy.
Religion
Pope Telesphorus succeeds Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope.
Roman Empire
The old Pantheon is demolished by Hadrian and the construction of a new one begins.
Asia
First year of the Yongjian era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
Roman Empire
Emperor Hadrian returns to Rome after a seven year voyage to the Roman provinces.
Hadrian, acting on the advice of his proconsul of Asia, Minucius Fundanus, determines that Christians shall not be put to death without a trial.
India
Kanishka I starts to rule in Kushan Empire (approximate date).
Religion
The philosopher Carpocrates rejects ownership of private property as being un-Christian.
Roman Empire
Emperor Hadrian visits the Roman province of North Africa, in order to inspect Legio III Augusta stationed at Lambaesis. For strategic reasons the legionnaires are located in the Aurès Mountains.
Hadrian's Wall is completed in Britain. Built mostly of stone in the east and with a wooden palisade in the west. They construct at least 16 forts, about 15,000 legionaries digging ditches, quarrying rock and cutting stone, preventing idleness which led to unrest and rebellions in the ranks.
Roman agriculture declines as imports from Egypt and North Africa depress wheat prices, making it unprofitable to farm and forcing many farmers off the land.
Roman bakeries produce dozens of bread varieties, and the Romans distribute free bread for the poor.
Hadrian begins his inspection of the provinces of Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt.
Asia
King Gaeru of Baekje succeeds to the throne of Baekje in the Korean peninsula.
Arts and sciences
The fossils of large prehistoric animals are discovered in Dalmatia.
Pantheon, Rome is finished.
Roman Empire
A defense for Numidia is constructed at Lambaesis by Legio III Augusta.
Emperor Hadrian continues his voyages, now inspecting Caria, Cappadocia and Syria.
Religion
Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Diogenes to Eleutherius.
Hadrian, Roman Emperor (117–138)
Marcus Annius Catilius Severus, later known as Marcus Aurelius. Born in 121, he would eventually become a Roman emperor.
Publius Helvius Pertinax, better known as Pertinax. Born in 126, he would eventually become a Roman emperor.
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