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| | | Titus becomes emperor on the death of his father, Vespasian, and begins a brief two-year reign of lavish public generosity | |
|  | Arch of Titus, Rome
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| 79 |
| | | A sudden eruption of Vesuvius buries the town of Pompeii in volcanic ash, in places twelve feet deep | |
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| c. 80 |
| | | The earliest of the Christian gospels, that of St Mark, is written down - possibly in Asia Minor or Syria | |
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| 80 |
| | | The Colosseum is inaugurated by the emperor Titus with games lasting 100 days, in which some 9000 large animals are killed | |
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| 81 |
| | | Dying after a reign of only two years, Titus is succeeded on the imperial throne by his brother, Domitian | |
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| 83 |
| | | Agricola defeats the tribes of Scotland at an unidentified place called Mons Graupius, probably almost as far north as Aberdeen | |
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| 98 |
| | | Tacitus begins his career with two specialized but influential works of history, one on Britain and the other on Germany | |
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| 98 |
| | | Trajan, succeeding to the imperial throne in AD 98, is sufficiently confident to spend a year in Germany before returning to Rome | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | A naturalistic style of Buddhist sculpture develops in the Gandhara region, part of modern Pakistan | |
|  | Gandhara sculpture
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| c. 100 |
| | | A cult develops in Rome of the Egyptian goddess Isis, credited with restoring to life her hushand, Osiris, after he has been hacked to pieces | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Sculptors in the Roman empire develop the most brutally realistic convention in the history of portraiture | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Mecca develops into a place of pilgrimage, with a famous collection of idols in the Ka'ba | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | The Celtic chieftains of Britain adapt willingly to Roman customs and comforts | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Theravada Buddhism, strong in south India and Sri Lanka, travels with traders through southeast Asia | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Realistic portraits, done in hot wax and preserved in coffins at Fayyum, vividly depict inhabitants of Roman Egypt | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Teotihuacan, the dominant city in the northern highlands of central America, introduces the god Quetzalcoatl | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | The network of Roman roads stretches eventually from England to Egypt | |
|  | Roman road, Pompeii
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| c. 100 |
| | | The first accounts of Scotland, written by the Romans, name the Caledonii as the most important tribe of the region | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Buddhism, arriving with trade along the Silk Road from India, puts down firm roots in China | |
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| c. 105 |
| | | A bridge is built over the river Tagus at Alcántara and stands today as a fine example of Roman technology | |
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| 105 |
| | | The eunuch Ts'ai Lun either invents paper or presents a report on the new substance to the Chinese emperor | |
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| 106 |
| | | After two campaigns by Trajan the rich region of Dacia (today's Romania) is brought under Rome's control | |
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| 117 |
| | | Hadrian, governing Syria when he is declared emperor, is confident enough to delay almost a year before returning to Rome | |
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| c. 120 |
| | | Kanishka rules the Kushan empire of Afghanistan and northern India from his capital at Peshawar | |
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| c. 120 |
| | | The Pantheon, roofed with the most spectacular dome of antiquity, is built in Rome by Hadrian | |
|  | Pantheon, exterior
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| 122 |
| | | The emperor Hadrian, visiting Britain, orders the construction of a great wall from coast to coast to keep out the Caledonian tribes | |
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| c. 125 |
| | | Suetonius, librarian to Trajan and personal secretary to Hadrian, is well placed to research his racy Lives of the Caesars | |
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| 130 |
| | | Hadrian, visiting Jerusalem, decides to rebuild it as a Roman city - an act which provokes the final Jewish uprising | |
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| 132 |
| | | Simon Bar-Cochba drives the Romans out of Jerusalem and holds it for three years, until a large Roman army recovers the city | |
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| 134 |
| | | The Sant'Angelo bridge in Rome, still standing today, is built for the emperor Hadrian by means of a coffer dam | |
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| 135 |
| | | After the Roman recovery of Jerusalem from Simon Bar-Cochba, all Jews are expelled from the city | |
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| 138 |
| | | The emperor Hadrian, with no children of his own, appoints a respected senator, Antoninus Pius, to succeed him | |
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| c. 142 |
| | | The emperor Antoninus Pius gives orders for the construction of a defensive earthwork, to the north of Hadrian's Wall | |
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| c. 150 |
| | | London develops as a prosperous trading centre, at the hub of the network of Roman roads in Britain | |
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| c. 150 |
| | | Ptolemy writes in Alexandria an encyclopedic account of Greek scientific theory in cosmology, astronomy and geography | |
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