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104 CE

Apollodorus of Damascus builds a stone bridge over the Danube more than 1,000 m ft long, almost 20 m ft high and 15 m ft wide. The bridge connects what is now Serbia with Romania (at the time known as Dacia). Pliny the Younger continues as a member of the College of Augurs (103–104). Nijmegen is renamed Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum.

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Apollodorus of Damascus builds a stone bridge over the Danube more than 1,000 m ft long, almost 20 m ft high and 15 m ft wide. The bridge connects what is now Serbia with Romania (at the time known as Dacia).source
  • Trajan gives the order to have the Alcántara Bridge, constructed by the architect Lacer, built over the Tagus River at Alcántara (Hispania).source

Science & Discovery

  • Nijmegen is renamed Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum.source

Crime & Justice

  • In India, figures of Buddha replace abstract motifs on decorative items.source

Culture & Society

  • Pliny the Younger continues as a member of the College of Augurs (103–104).source

Births

  • Chen Shi, Chinese politician and official (d. 187)source
  • Gaius Appuleius Diocles, Roman charioteersource