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Epictetus, a Stoic philosopher
in Nikopolis, invents an earthen lamp. The invention
is sold after his death for 3,000 drachmas.
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| 101 |
Start of the Dacian Wars
Emperor Trajan extends the Empire's borders to the greatest
extent it will ever reach.
Trajan's column built to commemorate this expansion
in Rome. |
| 105 |
T'sai Lun, a eunuch director of the Chinese Han Court's
imperial workshops, invents mulberry-based paper-making.
He is later deified in Chinese mythology as the god of
paper-makers. |
| 106 |
Emperor Trajan celebrates a military triumph with 117
days of gladiatorial games, during which nearly 10,000
combatants fight to the death for Rome's entertainment. |
| 107 |
End of the Dacian Wars |
113 |
Suetonius writes his De Viris Illustribus (Concerning
Famous Men) |
114 |
Pliny the Younger's Epistulae (Letters)
published posthumously |
| 115 |
The Jews in Egypt, Palestine, Africa,
and Cyprus rebel against Roman rule. Trajan puts down
these rebellions
with unusual cruelty. |
| 116 |
Trajan makes the river Tigris serve as the Empire's
eastern boundary. He forms new provinces in Mesopotamia
and Assyria. |
| 117 |
End of Emperor Trajan's reign. Hadrian becomes Roman
Emperor. He rules until 138. |
118-126 |
Period of construction for the Roman Pantheon. |
| 121 |
Suetonius writes his De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the
Caesars) |
122 |
Hadrian visits Britain. He orders construction
of Hadrian's wall and fortifications between Roman-controlled
section of England and barbarian-controlled Scotland. |
c. 125 |
The Pantheon completed in Rome, built by architects
and engineers serving the Roman Emperor Hadrian.. |
| 127 |
Juvenal writes his Satires. |
130 |
Hadrian visits Egypt. A new capital city
begun at Antinopolis. |
132 |
Shimeon Bar-Kokhba and Rabbi Akiba Ben-Joseph
led Jews in a second major rebellion against Roman
control. The Jewish forces capture Jerusalem and set
up an independent
state of Israel.
Chang Heng, a Chinese imperial astronomer, invents
an earthquake alarm based on an eight-foot long, free-swinging
pendulum. |
| 133 |
Julius Severus sent to Palestine to stop the Jewish
rebellion. |
| 135 |
Severus crushes the Jewish rebellion. Death of Bar-Kokhba
and Akiba Ben-Joseph.
Final diaspora of the Jews begins. |
138
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End of Emperor Hadrian's reign. Antoninus Pius becomes
Emperor of Rome. He rules until 161. |
150 |
Claudius Ptolemy completes his Geographia.It
includes the first map of the world known to use a latitude
and longitudinal grid system. |
151 |
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161 |
End of Emperor Antoninus Pius' reign. Marcus
Aurelius becomes Roman Emperor. He rules until 180 . |
165 |
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166 |
The Emperor Huan-Ti receives gifts from
Marcus Aurelius.
Serious outbreak of plague in Europe. |
167 |
Outbreak of plague finally subsides in
Europe. |
170 |
The Chinese invent the edge-runner mill.
Apuleius writes The Golden Ass |
| 176 |
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| 180 |
The Chinese invent gimbals and a rotary fan for ventilation,
and the zoetrope (lamp cover that revolves in circles
from ascending hot air).
Death of Marcus Aurelius. His son Commodus becomes
Emperor, ruling until 192.
In Scillium, the first African Christians martyred
under Commodus (son of Marcus Aurelius). |
181 |
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (i.e.,
a collection of Stoic philosophy) published posthumously.
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189 |
Last of the Han Emperors, Hsien-Ti, begins his rule.
His imperium lasts until 220, but the real government
is in the hands of military dictators.
The square-pallet chain-pump perfected in China. |
| 192 |
Death of Commodus. Empire thrown into chaos. |
193 |
Pertinax selected as emperor. Praetorian Guard murders
him, and they choose Didius Julian instead. Didius Julian
reigns for two months.
Septimus Severus becomes emperor of Rome, seizing
the city and thwarting Didius Julian. Julian executed. |
197 |
Clodius Albinus, governor of Britain (another
claimant to imperial power) dies. Severus kills him at
the battle of Lyon. |
| 200 |
Galen
of Pergamum proves arteries are carriers of blood,
overturning the earlier belief that
the arteries were merely air tubes.
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