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153

Change of era name from Yuanjia (3rd year) to Yongxing of the Chinese Han Dynasty

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151

Mytilene and Smyrna are destroyed by an earthquake

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149

Last (3rd) year of the Jianhe of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

Birth of Zhu Jun, commander of the Yellow Turbin Rebellion

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147

Beginning of festivals to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the founding of Rome.

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146

Marcus Aurelius receives the imperium proconsular.

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145

- Change of era name from Jiankang (1st year) to Yongxi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
- Change of emperor from Han Chongdi to Han Zhidi of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

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144

Change of era name from Hanan (3rd year) to Jiankang era of the Chinese Han Dynasty

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143

The Roman doctor Antyllus performs the first arteriotomy.

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141

6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

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140

Antoninus Pius recognizes the king of the Quadi, who becomes an ally of Rome.
Export of olive oil from Hispania Baetica to Rome peaks.

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138

Antoninus Pius succeedes Hadrian as Romam Emperor.

Zhi becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty in China

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137

Tax laws are passed for trade in Palmyra. The caravan city grows rich by importing rare products from the Persian Gulf, and by exporting items manufactured by the Mediterranean world to the East.

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135

- End of Simon bar Kokhba's revolt in Judaea. He is killed after 13 December in Bethar, the fortress in which he had taken refuge. Resistance continues in Galilee.
- An altar to Jupiter is erected on the site of the Temple of Jerusalem.

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133

Sextus Julius Severus, governor of Britain, is sent to Judea (after 135 renamed Palestine) to quell a revolt

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131

Emperor Hadrian builds the city Aelia Capitolina on the location of Jerusalem

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129

Construction of Lambese of a defense for Numidia by the Roman legions

Hadrian continues his voyages, now inspecting Caria, Sicily, Cappodocia, and Syria

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127

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.

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125

Construction of the Pantheon as it stands today by Hadrian.

Pope Telesphorus succeeds Pope Sixtus I as the 8th Pope

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123

• Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli was built.
• Hadrian averted a war with Parthia by a personal meeting with Osroes
• Housesteads Fort constructed on Hadrian's Wall north of Bardon Mill (approximate date).

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121

• Hadrian fixes the border between Roman Britain and Caledonia on a line running from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth.
• Temple of Venus is built in Rome.

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119

Roman Emperor Hadrian stations the Legio VI Victrix in Roman Britain, to assist in quelling a local rebellion.

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117

Construction begins on the Pantheon in Rome.

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115


Alexandria in Egypt destroyed during the Jewish-Greek civil wars.

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114

The triumphal arch was erected in Benevento.

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112

King Jima succeeds King Pasa as ruler of Korea

Trajan is Roman Consul

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110

Suetonius publishes Of illustrious men (De viris illustribus)

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108

In Rome, the opening of "Doctor's offices" replaces "house calls".

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106

Trajan defeats king Decebalus of Dacia (Romania). Dacia becomes a Roman province.
Trajan annexes Nabataean Arabia (with its capital Petra) as a Roman province.

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104

Apollodorus of Damascus builds a stone bridge over the Danube more than 1,000 meters long, almost 20 meters high and 15 meters wide. The bridge connected what is now Serbia with Romania (at the time known as Dacia).

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102

Having organised the territories of the Tarim basin, Chinese general Ban Chao retires to Luoyang, and dies shortly thereafter.

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100

- Lions have become extinct in Europe by this date.
- Trajan creates a policy intended to restore the former economic supremacy of Italy.

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98

In order to maintain the Port of Alexandria, Trajan reopens the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea.

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97

Nerva recognizes the Sanhedrin of Jamnia as an official governmental body of the Jews, and the patriarch or nasi is designated as the representative of the Jewish people in Rome.

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95

- Frontinus is appointed superintendent of the aqueducts (curator aquarum) in Rome.
- Roman emperor Domitian is also a Roman Consul.

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94

• Domitian rebuilds and rededicates the Curia Julia (meeting place of the Roman Senate), which had burned down in 64.
• Domitian bans philosophers from Rome.

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92

Legio XXI Rapax is destroyed by the Sarmatians of Pannonia.

Pope Clement I writes the 1st Epistle of Clement after the problems of the Christian Community in Corinth.

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91

- Rome is described by Statius in his poems.
- Pliny the Younger was named a tribunus plebis.

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90

Drafting of The Gospel of John and the Acts of the Apostles.

Also Birth of Ptolemy

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88

Last year (4th) of yuanhe era and start of zhanghe era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty, with the debut of the reign of Han Hedi as Emperor of China.

wow...already down to 88

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86

Roman legions face disaster in Dacia, when Cornelius Fuscus, Praetorian prefect, launches a powerful offensive that becomes a failure. Encircled in the valley of Timi, he dies along with his entire army. Rome must pay tribute in Dacians in exchange for a vague recognition of Rome's importance.

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85

Jealous of Gnaeus Julius Agricola's success in Britain, Domitian recalled and subsequently poisoned the general. Domitian appoints himself censor for life, which gives him the right to control the Senate. His totalitarian tendencies put the senatorial aristocracy firmly in opposition to him.