Crime & Justice in the 2nd century

18 sourced entries, 118 CE to 197 CE, oldest first. Also see Crime & Justice across every century or everything else in the 2nd century.

• 118The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.source
• 120Legio IX Hispana last known to be in existence.source
• 122Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) in northern England, is garrisoned by cohort VIII Batavorum.source
• 130c. 130–138 – Hadrian Hunting Boar and Sacrificing to Apollo, sculptural reliefs on the Arch of Constantine, Rome, are made.source
• 130c. 130–138 – Antinous, from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Italy, is made. It is now kept at Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Rome.source
• 130The Antinous Mondragone is sculpted.source
• 130A law is passed in Rome banning the execution of slaves without a trial.source
• 134A law improving the lot of free workers is passed in Rome.source
• 160In Roman Empire, the Antonine Wall in Britain is retaken by Roman legions.source
• 164The Antonine Wall in Scotland is abandoned by the Romans.source
• 165Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans.source
• 166Scholars who have denounced eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital and official life in Han dynasty China. This is the first of the Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions, which end in 184.source
• 169Lucian demonstrates the absurdity of fatalism.source
• 181The Antonine Wall is overrun by the Picts in Britannia (approximate date).source
• 185Commodus drains Rome's treasury to put on gladiatorial spectacles and confiscates property to support his pleasures. He participates as a gladiator and boasts of victory in 1,000 matches in the Circus Maximus.source
• 193Counterfeiting workshops begin to appear throughout the Roman Empire.source
• 196Hadrian's Wall in Britain is partially destroyed.source
• 197Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius.source