Culture & Society in the 2nd century

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

• 100The Fourth Buddhist Council is convened in Jalandhara, Punjab.source
• 100The Hopewell tradition roughly begins in what is now Ohio.source
• 100The future emperor, Hadrian, marries Vibia Sabina.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
• 105Last year (17th) of yongyuan era and start of yuanxing era of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty.source
• 107First year of the yongchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.source
• 114First year of Yuanchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty.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
• 131The Edict of Hadrian prohibits the practice of circumcision. Additionally, Hadrian prohibits public reading of the Torah under penalty of death, as well as observance of festivals and the Sabbath, the teaching of Judaic Law, and the ordination of rabbis.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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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