Timeline of Ancient Rome - 2nd Century

2nd Century

• 101/102– First Dacian War
• 105/106– Second Dacian War; king Decebalus commits suicide and Dacia becomes a province
• 106– Building of Trajan's Forum and construction of Trajan's column
• 113/117– Trajan's successful campaigns against the Parthian Empire
• 115/117– Jewish rebellion that started in Egypt (Kitos War)
• 117– Hadrian becomes emperor
• 121/125– Hadrian travels through the Northern Empire
• 122– construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
• 128/132– Hadrian travels through Africa and the Eastern Empire
• 131/135 - Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt
• 138– Antoninus Pius becomes emperor
• 140/143– After a rebellion Antoninus conquers Scotland; construction of Antonine Wall begins
• 150/163– rebellions in Scotland, Antonine Wall is abandoned and reoccupied several times
• 161– Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor
• 162/166– Lucius Verus successful campaigns against the Parthian Empire
• 167– The tribe of the Marcomanni crosses the Danube and invades Dacia
• 168/175– Marcus Aurelius' campaigns against the Marcomanni
• 180– Death of Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five good emperors; Commodus becomes emperor
• 184– Antonine Wall abandoned for the last time
• 193– Commodus is murdered. After the short reigns of Pertinax and Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus becomes emperor. There is opposition from first Pescennius Niger and then Clodius Albinus
• 197– Septimius Severus secures the empire after the battle of Lugdunum
• 198– Septimius Severus invades Parthia