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Trajan

13th Roman Emperor (98–117)

32 dated entries naming Trajan, drawn from 28 separate years between 48 CE and 332 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

  • 48Ulpia Marciana, sister of Trajan (d. 112)source
  • 53(approximate year) Marcus Ulpius Traianus, Roman emperor (d. 117)source
  • 68Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, father of Trajan, becomes consul.source
  • 68July 4 – Salonia Matidia, niece of Trajan (d. AD 119)source
  • 86Roman general (and future emperor) Trajan begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germania.source
  • 91Manius Acilius Glabrio and Marcus Ulpius Traianus become Roman Consuls.source
  • 96Marcus Ulpius Traianus becomes governor of Upper Germany.source
  • 97October 28 – Emperor Nerva recalls his general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, age 44, from the German frontier and is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt him as his successor.source
  • 99Emperor Trajan returns to Rome.source
  • 100Emperor Trajan and Frontinus become Roman consuls.source

2nd century

  • 101Trajan begins his fourth consulship.source
  • 102Emperor Trajan returns to Rome after a successful campaign against Dacia, through which he reestablishes clear Roman sovereignty over King Decebalus.source
  • 103Emperor Trajan and Manius Laberius Maximus become Roman consuls.source
  • 105Emperor Trajan starts the second expedition against Dacia; he leaves with the Imperial Roman fleet from Brundusium.source
  • 106Emperor Trajan conquers the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie Mountains, and surrounds the capital, Sarmizegetusa.source
  • 107An Indian ambassador is received by Emperor Trajan.source
  • 109June 24 – The Aqua Traiana is inaugurated by Emperor Trajan; the aqueduct channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 km mi northwest of Rome.source
  • 111Emperor Trajan sends Pliny the Younger to be governor (legatus Augusti) of Bithynia.source
  • 112Emperor Trajan and Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus become Roman consuls.source
  • 113Osroes I of Parthia violates the treaty with Rome by installing a puppet ruler in Armenia. Emperor Trajan marches east, without first attempting to use diplomacy to resolve the disagreement.source
  • 113Emperor 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.source
  • 114Emperor Trajan defeats the Parthians and overruns Armenia and northern Mesopotamia.source
  • 115Emperor Trajan is cut off in southern Mesopotamia after his invasion of that region.source
  • 116Emperor Trajan completes his invasion of Parthia by capturing the cities of Seleucia, Babylon, Ctesiphon and Susa, marking the high-water mark of the Roman Empire's eastern expansion.source
  • 117Emperor 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.source
  • 117August 8 – Trajan, Roman emperor (b. AD 53)source
  • 118Trajan'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.source
  • 119Salonia Matidia (a niece of former Emperor Trajan) dies. Hadrian delivers her funeral oration, and grants her a temple in Rome.source
  • 119December 23 – Salonia Matidia, niece of Trajan (b. AD 68)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
  • 193January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard.source

4th century

  • 332Constantine I continues construction of a bridge (in imitation of Trajan and his architect Apollodorus of Damascus) across the Danube, for forward-staging grounds for planned campaigns against local tribes.source

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