World Timeline

[Wilkshire]

AD 122: The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 123: In China, Ban Yong, son of Ban Chao, reestablishes the Chinese control over the Tarim Basin.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 124: In northern India, Nahapana, ruler of the Scythians, is defeated and dies in battle while fighting against King Gautamiputra Satakarni.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 125: The Pantheon is constructed (in Rome) as it stands today, by Hadrian.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 126: Yan Ji, the Empress Anxi, who was the wife of the deceased Emperor An, died after her clan members were killed in the previous year following a power struggle.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 127: The philosopher Carpocrates rejects ownership of private property as being un-Christian.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 128: King Gaeru of Baekje succeeds to the throne of Baekje in the Korean peninsula (until 166).

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 129: Change of Patriarch of Constantinople, from Patriarch Diogenes to Eleutherius.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 130: The Scythian king Rudradaman I reconquers the lands annexed by Gautamiputra from the Andhra.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 131: Emperor Hadrian builds the city Aelia Capitolina, on the location of Jerusalem.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 132: Chinese scientist Zhang Heng invents the first seismometer for determining the exact cardinal direction of earthquakes hundreds of miles away; the device employs a series of complex gears around a central swinging pendulum.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 133: January 30 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor is born (according to Cassius Dio) (d. 193).

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 134: Ilseong becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 135: A Jewish diaspora begins, as Emperor Hadrian bars Jews from Jerusalem, and has survivors of the massacre dispersed across the Roman Empire. Many join Mediterranean ports.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 136: The Roman province of Iudaea (plus Galilee) becomes Syria Palaestina; the name Palestine as a designation for this land has been used since at least the 5th century BC (mentioned by Herodotus).

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 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.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 138: Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Roman Emperor.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 139: Mcurn earthquake, listed in bibliographical records of seismology as having affected the city of Mcurn (modern Hösnek, Turkey). The earthquake reportedly took place in the vicinity of Mount Ararat. The region was part of the historic Kingdom of Armenia, corresponding to eastern areas of modern Turkey. A primary source for the earthquake is the work of the historian Movses Khorenatsi (5th century).

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 140: Pope Pius I succeeds Pope Hyginus as the tenth pope of Rome according to tradition.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 141: The 141 Lycia earthquake affects most of the Roman provinces of Lycia and Caria and the islands of Rhodes, Kos, Simi and Serifos. It triggers a severe tsunami, which causes major inundation.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 142: The Chinese Taoist alchemist Wei Boyang, author of the Kinship of the Three, is the first to describe an early form of gunpowder solution.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 143: Traditional date of death of Saint Venera.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 144: The Roman campaigns in Mauretania begin.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 145: Change of emperor from Han Chongdi to Han Zhidi of the Chinese Han dynasty.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 146: Chadae becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 147: Marcus Aurelius receives imperial powers, from Emperor Antoninus Pius.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 148: Euzois succeeds Athendodorus, as Patriarch of Constantinople.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 149: Sima Fang (or Jiangong), Chinese official and scholar of the Han Dynasty (d. 219) is born.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 150: The earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) is made at approximately this time.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 151: Mytilene and Smyrna are destroyed by an earthquake.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 152: Markianos, patriarch of Alexandria died.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 153: Minor uprisings occur in Roman Egypt against Roman rule.

 

[Ayuzh]

AD 154: Anicetus becomes pope of Rome

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 155: the Council of Rome, a pre-ecumenical church council, is held and presided by Bishop of Rome Anicetus.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 156: The La Mojarra Stela 1 is produced in Mesoamerica.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 157: A revolt against Roman rule begins in Dacia.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 158: The aforementioned revolt against Roman rule in Dacia is crushed.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 159: In India, the reign of Shivashri Satakarni, as King Satavahana of Andhra, begins.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 160: The first Buddhist monks arrive in China.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 161: March 7 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies, and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius, who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.