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Roman Empire

• Bricks become the primary building material in the Roman Empire
  Roman Empire
  
  The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
  .
• Pliny the Younger
  Pliny the Younger
  
  Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo , better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and natural philosopher of Ancient Rome....
   advances to consul
  Consul
  
  Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
  ship.
• The Roman Army
  Roman army
  
  The Roman Army was employed by the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, as part of the Roman military. Its most important infantry constituent for much of its history was the Roman legion....
   reaches 300,000 soldiers.
• Tiberius Avidius Quietus
  Tiberius Avidius Quietus
  
  Tiberius Avidius Quietus was a Roman Empire politician of the late 1st century.Avidius Quietus was made governor of Roman Britain in c. 97 and held the post until c....
  ' rule as governor of Roman Britain
  Roman Britain
  
  Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia....
   ends.
• Timgad
  Timgad
  
  Timgad was a Roman colonial town in North Africa founded by the Emperor Trajan around 100. The full name of the town was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi....
   (Thamugas) is founded by Emperor Trajan
  Trajan
  
  Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
  .
• Trajan
  Trajan
  
  Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
   creates a policy intended to restore the former economic supremacy of Italy
  Italy
  
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  .

Europe

• Lion
  Lion
  
  The lion is a member of the family Felidae and one of four big cats in the genus Panthera. With exceptionally large males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger....
  s have become extinct in the Balkans
  Balkans
  
  The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic subregion of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia....
   by this date.

Asia

• Pakores (last king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom
  Indo-Parthian Kingdom
  
  The Indo-Parthian Kingdom was established during the 1st century by Gondophares, and at its greatest extent extended into areas that are in present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India....
  ) takes the throne.
• Paper
  Paper
  
  Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
   is used by the general populace in China, starting around this year.
• The Kingdom of Himyarite is conquered by the Hadramaut.

Americas

• The Hopewell tradition begins in what is now Ohio
  Ohio
  
  Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
   circa this date.
• Teotihuacan
  Teotihuacán
  
  Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest Mesoamerican pyramid built in the pre-Columbian Americas....
  , at the center of Mexico
  Mexico
  
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  , reaches a population of 50,000.
• The Moche
  Moche
  
  The 'Moche' civilization flourished in northern Peru from about 100 C.E. to 800 C.E., during the Cultural periods of Peru. While still the subject of some debate, many scholars contend that the Moche were not politically organized as a monolithic empire or state but rather as a group of autonomous polities that shared a common elite cu...
   civilization emerges, and starts building an advanced society in present-day Peru
  Peru
  
  Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  .

By topic

Arts and Sciences

• In China, the wheelbarrow
  Wheelbarrow
  
  A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles to the rear or a sail may be used to guide the ancient wheelbarrow by wind....
   makes its first appearance.

Religion

• Appearance of the first Christian
  Christian
  
  A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
   dogma
  Dogma
  
  Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authority and not to be disputed, doubted or heresy....
   and formulas regarding morality
  Morality
  
  Morality has three principal meanings.In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong....
  .
• The Gospel of John
  Gospel of John
  
  The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the Biblical canon of the New Testament, traditionally ascribed to John the Evangelist. Like the three synoptic gospels, it contains an account of some of the actions and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, but differs from them in ethos and theological emphases....
   is widely believed to have been written around this date.
• The compilation of the Kama sutra
  Kama Sutra
  
  The Kama Sutra , , is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the India scholar Vatsyayana....
   begins in India.
• The Temple of the God of Medicine is built in Anguo
  Anguo
  
  Anguo , nicknamed "Medicine Capital" , is a county-level city in the regional city of Baoding, central Hebei Province, China, south of Beijing....
  , China
  China
  
  China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
  .
• The Fourth Buddhist Council
  Buddhist councils
  
  Lists and numbering of Buddhist councils vary between and even within schools. The numbering here is normal in Western writings....
   is convened circa this year.

Births

• Justin Martyr
  Justin Martyr
  
  Saint Justin Martyr was an early Christian apologetics and saint. His works represent the earliest surviving Christian "apologies" of notable size....
  , Christian
  Christianity
  
  Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
   apologist (approximate date)
• Marcus Cornelius Fronto
  Marcus Cornelius Fronto
  
  Marcus Cornelius Fronto , Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate, was born at Cirta in Numidia. He also was suffect consul of 142....
  , Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate (approximate date)

Deaths

• Agrippa II
  Agrippa II
  
  Agrippa II , son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great, thus last of the Herodians....
   of Judea
  Judea
  
  Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
  
• Josephus
  Josephus
  
  Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
  , Jewish historian
  Historian
  
  A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....