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The 110s

95 sourced entries across 10 years, inside the 2nd century. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.

110 CE8 entries

  • The Forum of Trajan is constructed in Rome, by the Syrian architect Apollodorus of Damascus.
  • 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.
  • Suetonius, Roman historian, publishes Viris Illustribus ("On Famous Men" – in the field of literature).

111 CE2 entries

  • Emperor Trajan sends Pliny the Younger to be governor (legatus Augusti) of Bithynia.

112 CE7 entries

  • August 29 – Salonia Matidia receives the title of Augusta upon the death of Marciana.
  • Emperor Trajan and Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus become Roman consuls.
  • Hadrian succeeds Gaius Julius Cassius Steirieus as archon of Athens.

113 CE8 entries

  • Trajan's Column near the Colosseum in Rome is completed to commemorate the Emperor's victory over the Dacians in the Second Dacian War.
  • Emperor Trajan sails from Rome to begin his expedition against Parthia. He arrives in Athens where Parthian envoys greet him with olive branches, a sign of peace.
  • "Pattini dheivam" worship is inaugurated in Kannagi Temple in the Chera Kingdom in India, by Emperor Cenkuttuvan; the function is attended by GajaBahu, king of Central Sri Lanka (Mahavamso).

114 CE6 entries

  • Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Sedecion to Patriarch Diogenes.
  • Construction begins on the Arch of Trajan in Benevento.
  • A monument to Philopappos, prince-in-exile of old Commagene (a buffer-state between Rome and Parthia) is erected in Athens.

115 CE12 entries

  • The Diaspora Revolt erupts almost simultaneously across various Jewish Diaspora communities in the empire's east, including Egypt, Libya and Cyprus.
  • An earthquake destroys Apamea and Antioch in Syria. The local bishop is held responsible (he will be martyred and remembered as St. Ignatius).
  • Alexandria in Egypt is damaged during the Jewish-Greek civil wars. Marcus Rutilius Lupus, the Roman governor, sends Legio XXII Deiotariana to protect the inhabitants of Memphis.

116 CE13 entries

  • Quintus Marcius Turbo sails to Alexandria and defeats Jewish insurgents in several pitched battles.
  • Trajan sends two expeditionary forces. One, consisting of elements of Legio III Cyrenaica, to suppress the revolt in Judea and the other Legio VII Claudia to restore order on Cyprus.
  • Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.

117 CE12 entries

  • Emperor Trajan falls seriously ill and dies of a stroke at Selinus in Cilicia, age 63, while en route from Mesopotamia to Italy, leaving the Roman Empire at its maximal territorial extent.
  • The Jewish Diaspora Revolt is quelled, likely by autumn 117, though unrest may have persisted in Egypt until early 118. Its suppression results in the near-complete expulsion of Jews from Cyrenaica, Cyprus, and several regions of Egypt.
  • John I becomes the 7th Bishop of Jerusalem.

118 CE17 entries

  • Trajan's Forum (commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan) is completed with triumphal arches, columns, a market complex, and an enormous basilica, all of which replace hundreds of dwellings.
  • The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.
  • 118–128 – Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts, from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is made (approximate date). It may be a copy of a painting done by the late 5th century BC Greek artist Zeuxis. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.

119 CE10 entries

  • Salonia Matidia (a niece of former Emperor Trajan) dies. Hadrian delivers her funeral oration, and grants her a temple in Rome.
  • Reign in Northern India by Nahapana, Scythian king. He attacks the kingdom of Andhra and annexes Southern Rajputana.
  • Emperor Hadrian stations Legio VI Victrix in Roman Britain, to assist in quelling the resistance of a local rebellion. The legion is key in securing the victory, and eventually replaces Legio IX Hispana at Eboracum.