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The 2nd century is the period from 101
101

Events...
 to 200
200

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 in accordance with the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
 in the Christian/Common Era
Common Era

Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period
History by period

eras, or classification of history, culture, and such into thematic groups involving time, so as to generate a history by period are intellectual constructs consisting of certain sets of common characteristics used by researchers, teachers, and academics when communicating about the past, its characteristics and attributes, and the like....


Early in the century, 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....
 attained its greatest expansion under the 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...
, but after his death became primarily defensive for the rest of its history. Much prosperity took place throughout the empire at this time, ruled as it were by the Five Good Emperors
Five Good Emperors

The Five Good Emperors is a term that refers to five consecutive emperors of the Roman Empire who represented a line of virtuous and just rule ? Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius....
, a succession of just and able rulers. This period also saw the removal of the Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s from Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 during the reign of Hadrian
Hadrian

Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
 after Bar Kokhba's revolt
Bar Kokhba's revolt

The Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire was a second major rebellion by the Jews of Iudaea Province and the last of the Jewish-Roman Wars....
. The last quarter of the century saw the end of the period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana
Pax Romana

Pax Romana was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the first century and second century Anno Domini....
 at the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
, last of the "Five Good Emperors
Five Good Emperors

The Five Good Emperors is a term that refers to five consecutive emperors of the Roman Empire who represented a line of virtuous and just rule ? Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius....
", and the accession of his ineffective and deranged son Commodus
Commodus

Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus , was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 . The name given here was his official name at his accession to sole rule; see 'Commodus#Changes of name' for earlier and later forms....
.

Although the Han Dynasty
Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
 of 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....
 was firmly cemented into power and extended its imperial influence into Central Asia
Central Asia

Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
 during the first half of the century, by the second half there was widespread corruption
History of the Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty , founded by the rebel peasant leader Emperor Gaozu of Han ,From the Shang Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty dynasties, Chinese rulers were referred to in later records by their posthumous names, while emperors of the Tang Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty dynasties were referred to by their temple names, and emperors of the Ming...
 and open rebellion
Yellow Turban Rebellion

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, sometimes also translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, was a wikt:AD 184 peasant rebellion against Emperor Ling of Han....
.






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The 2nd century is the period from 101
101

Events...
 to 200
200

Sorry, no overview for this topic
 in accordance with the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
 in the Christian/Common Era
Common Era

Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period
History by period

eras, or classification of history, culture, and such into thematic groups involving time, so as to generate a history by period are intellectual constructs consisting of certain sets of common characteristics used by researchers, teachers, and academics when communicating about the past, its characteristics and attributes, and the like....


Early in the century, 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....
 attained its greatest expansion under the 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...
, but after his death became primarily defensive for the rest of its history. Much prosperity took place throughout the empire at this time, ruled as it were by the Five Good Emperors
Five Good Emperors

The Five Good Emperors is a term that refers to five consecutive emperors of the Roman Empire who represented a line of virtuous and just rule ? Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius....
, a succession of just and able rulers. This period also saw the removal of the Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s from Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 during the reign of Hadrian
Hadrian

Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
 after Bar Kokhba's revolt
Bar Kokhba's revolt

The Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire was a second major rebellion by the Jews of Iudaea Province and the last of the Jewish-Roman Wars....
. The last quarter of the century saw the end of the period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana
Pax Romana

Pax Romana was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the first century and second century Anno Domini....
 at the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
, last of the "Five Good Emperors
Five Good Emperors

The Five Good Emperors is a term that refers to five consecutive emperors of the Roman Empire who represented a line of virtuous and just rule ? Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius....
", and the accession of his ineffective and deranged son Commodus
Commodus

Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus , was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 . The name given here was his official name at his accession to sole rule; see 'Commodus#Changes of name' for earlier and later forms....
.

Although the Han Dynasty
Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
 of 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....
 was firmly cemented into power and extended its imperial influence into Central Asia
Central Asia

Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
 during the first half of the century, by the second half there was widespread corruption
History of the Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty , founded by the rebel peasant leader Emperor Gaozu of Han ,From the Shang Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty dynasties, Chinese rulers were referred to in later records by their posthumous names, while emperors of the Tang Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty dynasties were referred to by their temple names, and emperors of the Ming...
 and open rebellion
Yellow Turban Rebellion

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, sometimes also translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, was a wikt:AD 184 peasant rebellion against Emperor Ling of Han....
. This set in motion its ultimate decline, until it was overthrown in 220.

Events

Hadrian's Wall At Greenhead Lough
  • 96–180: Five Good Emperors
    Five Good Emperors

    The Five Good Emperors is a term that refers to five consecutive emperors of the Roman Empire who represented a line of virtuous and just rule ? Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius....
     of Rome: Nerva
    Nerva

    Marcus Cocceius Nerva was a Roman Emperor who reigned from AD 96 until his death in 98. Nerva acceded to this position at the advanced age of 65, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the rulers of the Flavian dynasty--Vespasian, Titus and Domitian....
    , 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...
    , Hadrian
    Hadrian

    Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
    , Antoninus Pius
    Antoninus Pius

    Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus , generally known in English as Antoninus Pius was Roman Emperors from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors and a member of the Aurelii....
    , Marcus Aurelius
    Marcus Aurelius

    Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
  • The kingdom
    Monarchy

    A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
     of Aksum emerges
  • 122–132: Hadrian's Wall
    Hadrian's Wall

    Hadrian's Wall is a Rock and Sod fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the middle of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being from the River Clyde to the River Forth under Agricola and the last the Ant...
     across Britain
  • 132–135: Bar Kokhba's revolt
    Bar Kokhba's revolt

    The Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire was a second major rebellion by the Jews of Iudaea Province and the last of the Jewish-Roman Wars....
     against Rome
  • 144: Marcion, rejected by Church of Rome, founds Marcionism
    Marcionism

    Marcionism is an Early Christian Dualism belief system that originates in the teachings of Marcion of Sinope at Rome around the year 144. Marcion affirmed Jesus Christ as the savior sent by God and Paul as his chief apostle, but he rejected the Hebrew Bible and Yahweh....
  • 167–175: First Marcomanni
    Marcomanni

    The Marcomanni were a Germanic tribe, probably related to the Buri , Suebi or Suevi....
     War
  • 178–180: Second Marcomanni War (depicted in the movie Gladiator)
  • 184–205: the Yellow Turban Rebellion
    Yellow Turban Rebellion

    The Yellow Turban Rebellion, sometimes also translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, was a wikt:AD 184 peasant rebellion against Emperor Ling of Han....
     of the Han Dynasty
    Han Dynasty

    The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
     in China begins


Significant persons


  • Rabbi Akiva
    Rabbi Akiva

    Akiba ben Yossef or simply Rabbi Akiva was a Judean tannaim of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century ....
     Head of all the Jewish Sages
  • Rabbi Yehuda haNasi
    Judah haNasi

    Rabbi Judah haNasi, , also known as "Rabbi" and "Rabeinu HaKadosh" , was a key leader of the Jewish community of Judea toward the end of the 2nd century CE, during the occupation by the Roman Empire....
     Prince of the Jewish people
  • Commodus
    Commodus

    Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus , was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 . The name given here was his official name at his accession to sole rule; see 'Commodus#Changes of name' for earlier and later forms....
    , Roman Emperor, claimed to be Hercules
    Hercules

    Hercules is the Ancient Rome name for the mythical Ancient Greece hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italian shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his strength....
     reincarnated
  • Galen
    Galen

    Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamum , was a prominent Ancient Rome physician and philosopher of Greek origin, and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period....
    , medical writer
  • Irenaeus
    Irenaeus

    Saint Irenaeus , was a Catholic Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology....
    , second bishop of Lyon
  • Juvenal
    Juvenal

    The Satires are a collection of satire poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries A.D.Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five scroll; all are in the Roman genre of Satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and soc...
     Roman satirical poet
  • Montanus, Christian heretic
    Christian heresy

    Heresy is the rejection of one or more established beliefs of a religious body, or adherence to "other beliefs." Christian heresy refers to unorthodox practices and beliefs that were deemed to be heretical by one or more of the Christian churches....
  • Nagarjuna
    Nagarjuna

    File:Nagarjuna at Samye Ling Monastery.JPGFile:Nagarjuna.JPGAcharya Nagarjuna was an Indian philosophy and the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism....
    , founder of Madhyamaka
    Madhyamaka

    Madhyamaka is a Buddhist Mahayana tradition systematized by Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna may have arrived at his positions from a desire to achieve a consistent exegesis of Gautama Buddha's doctrine as recorded in the Nikayas....
     Buddhism
  • 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....
  • Plutarch
    Plutarch

    Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. AD 46 ? 120 ? commonly known in English as Plutarch ? was a Ancient Rome historian , biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonism....
    , Greek historian
  • Ptolemy
    Ptolemy

    Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
    , Greek astronomer, astrologer and geographer
  • Septimius Severus
    Septimius Severus

    Lucius Septimius Severus was a Roman Empire general, and Roman Emperor from April 14 193 to 211. He was born in what is now the Libyan part of Rome's historic Africa Province, making him the first emperor to be born in the Roman province of Africa Province....
    , Roman Emperor
  • Suetonius
    Suetonius

    Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius , was an equestrian and a historian during the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies on the battles of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar until Domitian, entitled On the Life of the Caesars....
    , Roman historian
  • Valentinius, most famous Christian Gnostic
  • Zhang Daoling
    Zhang Daoling

    Zhang Daoling , also commonly called Zhang Ling, was an Han Dynasty Taoist hermit who founded the Way of the Celestial Master sect of Taoism, also known as the "Tianshi Dao" sect or the "Wudou Mi Dao" sect....
    , Chinese Taoist hermit
  • Zhang Heng
    Zhang Heng

    Zhang Heng was an Chinese astronomy, Chinese mathematics, List of Chinese inventions, Chinese geography, History of cartography#China, Chinese art, Chinese poetry, Government of the Han Dynasty, and Chinese literature from Nanyang, Henan, Henan, and lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China....
    , Chinese statesman, poet, inventor, astronomer, geographer, and engineer


Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • Cai Lun
    Cai Lun

    Cai Lun , courtesy name Jingzhong , was a China eunuch, who is conventionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper ....
     of China invents paper (c. 105)
  • Ptolemy
    Ptolemy

    Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
     compiles a catalogue of all star
    Star

    A star is a massive, luminous ball of Plasma that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth....
    s visible to the naked eye. He also compiles three of the most influential books in western history:
  • the Almagest
    Almagest

    Almagest is the Latin form of the Arabic language name of a mathematical and astronomical treatise proposing the complex motions of the stars and planetary paths, originally written in Greek language as by Ptolemy of Alexandria, Egypt, written in the 2nd century....
     which becomes the basis for western and Middle Eastern astronomy until the time of Copernicus and Kepler;
  • the astrological treatise, Tetrabiblos;
  • and the Geographia
    Geographia (Ptolemy)

    The Geographia or Geography is Ptolemy's main work besides the Almagest. It is a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century....


  • 125
    125

    Events...
    : Zhang Heng
    Zhang Heng

    Zhang Heng was an Chinese astronomy, Chinese mathematics, List of Chinese inventions, Chinese geography, History of cartography#China, Chinese art, Chinese poetry, Government of the Han Dynasty, and Chinese literature from Nanyang, Henan, Henan, and lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China....
     of China invents the world's first water-powered
    Hydraulics

    Hydraulics is a topic of science and engineering dealing with the mechanical properties of liquids. Hydraulics is part of the more general discipline of fluid power....
     armillary sphere
    Armillary sphere

    An armillary sphere is a model of the celestial sphere....
  • 132
    132

    Events...
    : Zhang Heng
    Zhang Heng

    Zhang Heng was an Chinese astronomy, Chinese mathematics, List of Chinese inventions, Chinese geography, History of cartography#China, Chinese art, Chinese poetry, Government of the Han Dynasty, and Chinese literature from Nanyang, Henan, Henan, and lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China....
     of China invents first seismometer
    Seismometer

    Seismometers are instruments that measure and record motions of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, nuclear explosions, and other seismic sources....
     to detect the cardinal direction
    Cardinal direction

    The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials - N, S, E, W. They are mostly used for geography orientation on Earth but may be calculated anywhere on a rotating astronomical object....
     of earthquake
    Earthquake

    An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
    s

Decades and years