World Timeline

[Wilkshire]

AD 82: Wang Fu, Chinese historian and philosopher is born.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 83: Vibia Sabina (Roman Empress) is born.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 84: Agricola defeated a Caledonian army, led by Calgacus, at the Battle of Mons Graupius.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 85: Baekje invades the outskirts of Silla in the Korean peninsula. The war continues until the peace treaty of 105.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 86: Ban Gu (Pan Kou) and his sister Ban Zhao (Pan Tchao) compose the History of China.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 87: Lyon, a city in Gaul, has a population of over 100,000 citizens (approximate date).

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 88: Two Egyptian obelisks are erected in Benevento in front of the Temple of Isis, in honour of Emperor Domitian.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 89: Battle of Ikh Bayan: The Han Chinese army under Dou Xian, allied with the southern Xiongnu, is victorious over the Northern Xiongnu.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 90: The Romans build a small fort for the garrison in the suburbs of modern Regensburg (approximate date).

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 91: The Chinese government reestablishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 92: April 9 – Yuan An, Chinese administrator, scholar and statesman dies.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 93: Pliny the Younger is named a praetor.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 94: The Chinese General Ban Chao completes his conquest of the Tarim Basin by taking Yānqi, which is located on the strategic Silk Road.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 95: Emperor Domitian and Titus Flavius Clemens become Roman Consuls.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 96: The Arch of Titus is completed in Rome.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 97: Evaristus succeeds Pope Clement I as the fifth pope (according to Catholic tradition; none of the popes until the mid second century is certain).

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 98: Emperor Nerva dies of a fever at his villa in the Gardens of Sallust and is succeeded by his adopted son Trajan.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 99: Emperor Trajan returns to Rome.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 100: Teotihuacan, a major city at the centre of modern-day Mexico, reaches a population of around 60,000-80,000.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 101: Emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Roman Empire set by Augustus.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 102: Having organised the territories of the Tarim basin, Chinese General Ban Chao retires to Luoyang and dies shortly thereafter.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 103: In Palmyra, Syria, a Temple of the Sun is erected to the god Baal.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 104: In India, figures of Buddha replace abstract motifs on decorative items.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 105: The Trajan Bridge is finished. For more than a thousand years, it is the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 106: Roman victory in the Battle of Sarmizegetusa: The Dacians are defeated with 50,000 captured. King Decebalus flees and commits suicide.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 107: Han Andi (An-ti) becomes emperor of China.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 108: The Hypogeum of Yarhai, an underground tomb from the Syrian city of Palmyra dedicated to the family of Yarhai, is built.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 109: Osroes I of Parthia succeeds his brother Pacorus II, and rules over the western Parthian Empire.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 110: Caravans make regular departures from Luoyang with Chinese ginger, cassia (a type of cinnamon), and silk to be bartered in Central Asia for gold, silver, glassware, pottery, cloth, and intaglio gems from Rome.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 111: The Book of Han was completed.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 112: Tacitus is named proconsul of the Roman province of Asia (112–113)

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 113: Trajan's Column near the Colosseum in Rome is completed to commemorate the Emperor's victory over the Dacians in the Second Dacian War.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 114: First year of Yuanchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 115: An earthquake destroys Apamea and Antioch in Syria. The local bishop is held responsible (he will be martyred and remembered as St. Ignatius).

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 116: Emperor Trajan completes his invasion of Parthia by capturing the cities of Seleucia, Babylon, Ctesiphon and Susa, marking the high-water mark of the Roman Empire's eastern expansion.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 117: Construction begins on the Pantheon in Rome.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 118: The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 119: Salonia Matidia (a niece of former Emperor Trajan) dies. Hadrian delivers her funeral oration, and grants her a temple in Rome.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 120: The Scythians dominate western India: Punjab, Sind, the north of Gujarat and a portion of central India.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 121: Cai Lun, a Chinese eunuch court official during the Eastern Han dynasty who was pivotal in the history of paper because of his innovation of adding pulp in the paper-making process, committed suicide after Emperor An assumed power. This was due to Cai Lun's involvement in the death of the emperor's grandmother, Consort Song.