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| 122 |
| | | The emperor Hadrian, visiting Britain, orders the construction of a great wall from coast to coast to keep out the Caledonian tribes | |
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| c. 125 |
| | | Suetonius, librarian to Trajan and personal secretary to Hadrian, is well placed to research his racy Lives of the Caesars | |
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| 130 |
| | | Hadrian, visiting Jerusalem, decides to rebuild it as a Roman city - an act which provokes the final Jewish uprising | |
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| 132 |
| | | Simon Bar-Cochba drives the Romans out of Jerusalem and holds it for three years, until a large Roman army recovers the city | |
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| 134 |
| | | The Sant'Angelo bridge in Rome, still standing today, is built for the emperor Hadrian by means of a coffer dam | |
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| 135 |
| | | After the Roman recovery of Jerusalem from Simon Bar-Cochba, all Jews are expelled from the city | |
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| 138 |
| | | The emperor Hadrian, with no children of his own, appoints a respected senator, Antoninus Pius, to succeed him | |
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| c. 142 |
| | | The emperor Antoninus Pius gives orders for the construction of a defensive earthwork, to the north of Hadrian's Wall | |
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| c. 150 |
| | | London develops as a prosperous trading centre, at the hub of the network of Roman roads in Britain | |
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| c. 150 |
| | | Ptolemy writes in Alexandria an encyclopedic account of Greek scientific theory in cosmology, astronomy and geography | |
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