Technology & Infrastructure in the 1st century BC

17 sourced entries, 87 BCE to 2 BCE, oldest first. Also see Technology & Infrastructure across every century or everything else in the 1st century BC.

• 87 BCEAntikythera mechanism manufactured.source
• 78 BCEThe Tabularium is built in the Forum.source
• 77 BCEThe city of Tigranakert of Artsakh is built.source
• 77 BCEMarcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman proconsul of Transalpine Gaul and leader of the Populares faction in the senate, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus at the Milvian bridge outside Rome. The remnants of the rebels are wiped out by Pompey in Etruria.source
• 55 BCEJune – Julius Caesar crosses the Rhine River near modern-day Koblenz. He constructs a wooden bridge between Andernach and Neuwied (Germany).source
• 43 BCEApril 16 – Octavian is first proclaimed imperator by his troops.source
• 40 BCEThe Ji Jiu Pian dictionary, published about this year during the Han dynasty, is the earliest known reference to the hydraulic-powered trip hammer device.source
• 37 BCEAgrippa creates the harbour "Portus Julius" in the today-submersed town of Puteoli (the modern Pozzuoli, close to Naples). The port is used to train the warships for naval battles, and a new fleet is built, with 20,000 oarsmen gathered by freeing slaves. He also incorporates, on quinqueremes, a technical innovation, called the harpax ("snatcher"): a combination ballista and grappling hook, based on the corvus.source
• 33 BCEMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa is self demoted to Aedile, and builds the Aqua Julia, one of the aqueducts on which Rome's water supply depends, as well as cleaning the Cloaca Maxima sewerage system.source
• 30 BCEFirst possible date for the invention of the wheelbarrow in history; as the 5th century Book of the Later Han states that the wife of the once poor and youthful imperial censor Bao Xuan of the Chinese Han dynasty helped him push a lu che back to his village during their feeble wedding ceremony, around this year.source
• 27 BCEMarcus Agrippa begins the construction of the old Pantheon, Rome.source
• 19 BCEMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa completes the Aqua Virgo; the aqueduct is 21 km in length and supplies the city of Rome with about 100,000,000 liters of water every day.source
• 14 BCEThe Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus fortifies Augusta Vangionum, the modern city of Worms, Germany.source
• 13 BCEThe Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus builds the stronghold of castrum Moguntiacum in the location of the modern-day city of Mainz, Germany.source
• 12 BCEFirst official mention of Argentoratum, the city known in modern times as Strasbourg.source
• 10 BCEThe Romans build a bridge across the Rhine near Bonn (approximate date).source
• 2 BCEc. 2 BC: The Aqua Alsietina (or Aqua Augusta), which was a Roman aqueduct in Rome, is constructed during the reign of Augustus.source