Culture & Society in the 2nd century

55 sourced entries, 100 CE to 197 CE, oldest first. Also see Culture & Society across every century or everything else in the 2nd century.

• 100The Hopewell tradition roughly begins in what is now Ohio.source
• 100The future emperor, Hadrian, marries Vibia Sabina.source
• 101Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses of Epictetus (approximate date).source
• 103Pliny the Younger becomes a member of the college of Augurs (103–104).source
• 104Pliny the Younger continues as a member of the College of Augurs (103–104).source
• 106Aelianus Tacticus (or Aelian) writes his Taktike Theoria (approximate date).source
• 107First year of the yongchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.source
• 108Tacitus writes Histories, which covers the period from AD 69 to AD 96.source
• 110Suetonius, Roman historian, publishes Viris Illustribus ("On Famous Men" – in the field of literature).source
• 114First year of Yuanchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty.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
• 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
• 119Hadrian also visits Britain in this year at the request of governor of Britain Quintus Pompeius Falco.source
• 126First year of the Yongjian era of the Chinese Han dynasty.source
• 128The Pantheon in Rome is finished.source
• 129The song "Angel's Hymn" is made.source
• 130The Temple of Olympian Zeus is completed at Athens.source
• 132The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens) is completed, using Cossutius' design.source
• 134Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy, is completed.source
• 135Canopus, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is finished.source
• 136First year of Yonghe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.source
• 138Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is finished.source
• 139Marcus Aurelius is named Caesar. He marries the 9-year-old Faustina the Younger, daughter of Antoninus Pius.source
• 140Ptolemy completes his Almagest (approximate date).source
• 142First year of the Hanan era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.source
• 144Reign of Huvishka, emperor of the Kushan Empire.source
• 145Marcus Aurelius marries Faustina the Younger, the daughter of Antoninus Pius.source
• 147First year of Jianhe of the Chinese Han Dynasty.source
• 147Festivals to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the founding of Rome begin.source
• 148Emperor Antoninus Pius hosts a series of grand games, to celebrate Rome's 900th anniversary.source
• 150The Roman town Forum Hadriani (Voorburg) receives the title of Municipium Aelium Cananefatium, "the town of the Cananefates" (modern Netherlands). The town is awarded with rights to organize markets.source
• 150First and only year of the "Heping" era of the Han dynasty in China.source
• 150The earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) is made (approximate date).source
• 151First year of Yuanjia of the Chinese Han dynasty.source
• 151Detail from a rubbing of a stone relief in Wu family shrine (Wuliangci), Jiaxiang, Shandong, is made (Han dynasty).source
• 154The Antonine Wall is completed.source
• 159In India, the reign of Shivashri Satakarni, as King Satavahana of Andhra, begins.source
• 160Appian writes Ρωμαικα, known in English as the Roman History, in which he includes the history of each nation conquered up until the moment of its conquest.source
• 162Arrian, Greek historian and writer, publishes Indica, a work on India and its people.source
• 164Emperor Marcus Aurelius gives his daughter Lucilla in marriage to his co-emperor Lucius Verus.source
• 169Marcus Aurelius forces his daughter Lucilla into marriage with Claudius Pompeianus.source
• 170An Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is erected in Rome.source
• 170Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in Sirmium (Pannonia) his first of 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek.source
• 174Empress Faustina the Younger accompanies her husband, Marcus Aurelius, on various military campaigns and enjoys the love of the Roman soldiers. Aurelius gives her the title of Mater Castrorum ("Mother of the Camp").source
• 175Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina, is named Caesar.source
• 176The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is made. It is now kept at Museo Capitolini in Rome (approximate date).source
• 178Bruttia Crispina marries Commodus, and receives the title of Augusta.source
• 180Galen's popular work on hygiene is published.source
• 187Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa.source
• 189Galen publishes his "Treatise on the various temperaments" (a.k.a. On the Elements According to Hippocrates).source
• 190First year of the Chuping era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.source
• 191c. 191–192 – The sculpture of Commodus as Hercules, from Esquiline Hill, Rome, is made (it is now kept at Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome).source
• 194First year of the Xingping era, during the Han Dynasty in China.source
• 196First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han.source
• 197Galen's major work on medicines, Pharmacologia, is published.source