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The Sant'Angelo bridge in Rome, still standing today, is built for the emperor Hadrian by means of a coffer dam
After the Roman recovery of Jerusalem from Simon Bar-Cochba, all Jews are expelled from the city
The emperor Hadrian, with no children of his own, appoints a respected senator, Antoninus Pius, to succeed him
The emperor Antoninus Pius gives orders for the construction of a defensive earthwork, to the north of Hadrian's Wall
London develops as a prosperous trading centre, at the hub of the network of Roman roads in Britain
Ptolemy writes in Alexandria an encyclopedic account of Greek scientific theory in cosmology, astronomy and geography
A new doctor, Galen, is appointed to look after the gladiators at Pergamum
Marcus Aurelius, for long the designated heir, becomes emperor on the death of Antoninus Pius
The Romans annexe Doura-Europus, giving it its most prosperious period as a frontier town between the Roman and Persian empires
The bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, on the Capitol in Rome, begins a long European tradition of public sculpture
Marcus Aurelius is rare among emperors in writing twelve books of philosophical Meditations
The Han emperor in China has the six main Confucian classics engraved in stone, so that scholars may take rubbings - a first step towards printing
On the order of Marcus Aurelius, Christians in Lyons are tortured to death - an instance of persecution unusual at this time
The potato is cultivated in the Peruvian Andes
Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi compiles the Mishnah, a six-part digest of the Oral Torah
The rock tombs of prosperous Petra, now incorporated in the Roman empire, are carved in the cliffs as classical temples
Ardashir is crowned king of Fars - a first step towards his founding of the Sassanian dynasty in Persia
The Han dynasty is brought to an end, after more than four centuries, by decades of peasant unrest
Ardashir, the Persian king, commissions a relief of himself in triumphant mood - carved high on a rock face at Naqsh-e Rustam
A house in Doura-Europus is adapted for Christian worship - the earliest surviving example of its kind
Plotinus, moving from Alexandria to Rome, teaches the influential philosophy later known as Neo-Platonism
Origen, living in Caesarea, compiles the Hexapla, displaying versions of the Old Testament in six columns for comparative study
Roman socks, surviving in dry Egyptian tombs, are the earliest known examples of knitting
The Goths split into two major groups, the Visigoths northwest of the Black Sea and the Ostrogoths further east
The Persian prophet Mani establishes the dualistic Manichaean religion
