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Hadrian

14th Roman Emperor (117–138)

28 dated entries naming Hadrian, drawn from 25 separate years between 76 CE and 528 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century

  • 76January 24 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)source
  • 100The future emperor, Hadrian, marries Vibia Sabina.source

2nd century

  • 111Antinous, Bithynian Greek lover of Emperor Hadrian (d. 130)source
  • 112Hadrian succeeds Gaius Julius Cassius Steirieus as archon of Athens.source
  • 117On his death bed, Trajan allegedly adopts Hadrian, a fellow Spaniard, and designates him as his successor. Hadrian will reign until 138.source
  • 118Emperor Hadrian is also a Roman Consul.source
  • 119Emperor 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.source
  • 120Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.source
  • 121Emperor Hadrian fixes the border between Roman Britain and Caledonia, on a line running from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth.source
  • 122Emperor Hadrian orders that a 73-mile (117-kilometer) wall be built to mark the northern Roman Empire while personally visiting the area. Hadrian's Wall, as it comes to be known, is intended to keep the Caledonians, Picts and other tribes at bay.source
  • 123Emperor Hadrian averts a war with Parthia by a personal meeting with Osroes I (according to the Historia Augusta, disputed).source
  • 124Emperor Hadrian begins to rebuild the Olympeion in Athens.source
  • 126The old Pantheon is demolished by Emperor Hadrian, and the construction of a new one begins (its date is uncertain, because Hadrian chooses not to inscribe the temple).source
  • 127Emperor Hadrian returns to Rome, after a seven-year voyage to the Roman provinces.source
  • 128Emperor Hadrian visits the Roman province of North Africa, in order to inspect Legio III Augusta stationed at Lambaesis. For strategic reasons, the legionnaires are located in the Aurès Mountains.source
  • 128Hadrian begins his inspection of the provinces of Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt.source
  • 129Emperor Hadrian continues his voyages, now inspecting Caria, Cappadocia and Syria.source
  • 130Emperor Hadrian visits the cities Petra and Gerasa (Jerash).source
  • 130October 30 – Antinous, lover of Hadrian (b. 111)source
  • 131Emperor Hadrian builds the city Aelia Capitolina, on the location of Jerusalem.source
  • 132Bar Kokhba revolt: The messianic, charismatic Jewish leader Simon bar Kokhba starts a war of liberation for Judea against the Romans, which is eventually crushed (in 135) by Emperor Hadrian; Rabbi Akiva is supportive of the rebellion.source
  • 135A 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.source
  • 136Following the Bar Kokhba revolt, Emperor Hadrian expels the Jews from Judea, and receives a triumphal arch near Scythopolis. 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)).source
  • 138February 25 – Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, on condition that he adopt Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.source
  • 138July 10 – Hadrian, Roman emperor died at Baie (b. AD 76)source
  • 139The Tomb of Hadrian in Rome is completed; Emperor Antoninus Pius cremates the body of Hadrian, and places his ashes, together with that of his wife Vibia Sabina and his adopted son, Lucius Aelius, in the mausoleum.source
  • 161Marcus Aurelius, a Spaniard like Trajan and Hadrian, is a stoical disciple of Epictetus, and an energetic man of action. He pursues the policy of his predecessor and maintains good relations with the Senate. As a legislator, he endeavors to create new principles of morality and humanity, particularly favoring women and slaves.source

6th century

  • 528February 13 – Emperor Justinian I appoints a commission (including the jurist Tribonian) to codify all laws of the Roman Empire that are still in force from Hadrian to the current date; this becomes the Corpus Juris Civilis.source

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