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World History Timeline - 100
The Chinese refine papermaking in 105.
Emperor Trajan dies in 117. Hadrian, who will reign until 148, succeeds him.
The Roman Forum, which had been commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan, is finished in 118.
In 122, Emperor Hadrian orders that a 72-mile wall be built in northern Britain. Hadrian's Wall, as it comes to be known, is intended to keep the Picts and other tribes at bay.
In 125, the Roman satirist Juvenal's Satires records that bread and circuses keep the Roman people happy.
Simon Bar-Kokhba and rabbi Eleazar lead a revolt against Roman authority. They take control of Judaea in 132, but Roman forces crush the revolt three years later. A Jewish diaspora begins as Emperor Hadrian bars Jews from Jerusalem.
Rome experiences a plague in the latter part of the century that is so severe, people wonder if the world will survive.
A systematic persecution of Christians begins in Rome under Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 177. Many Christians worship secretly in underground catacombs.
In 180, in his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen devises a system of medicine that will influence medical thinking for over a thousand years.
Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies in 180, leaving behind his Meditations, an expression of his Stoic philosophy.
In 186, the city of Byzantium is sacked by Emperor Septimius Severus and reduced to a small village.
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