Hadrian’s Wall is built
- Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.
- Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain.
- A Kushan ambassadorial contingent visits with Hadrian.
- Suetonius becomes Hadrian’s secretary ab epistolis.
- Approximate date
- Legio IX Hispana last known to be in existence.
- The Market Gate of Miletus is built at Miletos (moved in modern times to Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung).
- Emperor Hadrian orders that a 73-mile (117-kilometer) wall be built to mark the northern Roman Empire while personally visiting the area. Hadrian’s Wall, as it comes to be known, is intended to keep the Caledonians, Picts and other tribes at bay
- Hadrian gives up the territories conquered in Scotland.
- The Pantheon is constructed (in Rome) as it stands today, by Hadrian.
- The Satires of Juvenal intimate that bread and circuses (panem et circenses) keep the Roman people happy.
