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118 CE

Trajan's Forum (commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan) is completed with triumphal arches, columns, a market complex, and an enormous basilica, all of which replace hundreds of dwellings. The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year. 118–128 – Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts, from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is made (approximate date). It may be a copy of a painting done by the late 5th century BC Greek artist Zeuxis. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Emperor Hadrian is also a Roman Consul.source
  • Osroene is returned to native rule by the Roman Empire.source

Conflict & Security

  • Plot of the consuls: Hadrian executes four senators, all former consuls, who had been shown to have plotted against him. His relations with the Senate are strained.source
  • The north-south feud between the Hun Dynasty ends.source
  • 118–128 – Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts, from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is made (approximate date). It may be a copy of a painting done by the late 5th century BC Greek artist Zeuxis. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Pantheon, in Rome, starts to be built (approximate date).source

Health & Medicine

  • Rome has a population exceeding 1 million, making it the largest city in the world.source

Crime & Justice

  • The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.source

Culture & Society

  • Trajan's Forum (commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan) is completed with triumphal arches, columns, a market complex, and an enormous basilica, all of which replace hundreds of dwellings.source

Deaths

  • August 8 – Primus, patriarch of Alexandriasource
  • Aulus Cornelius Palma, Roman politiciansource
  • Bassus of Lucera, Roman bishop and martyrsource
  • Ren Shang, Chinese general of Han Dynastysource
  • Terentian, Roman bishop and martyrsource
  • Lusius Quietus, Roman general and governorsource
  • Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, Roman politiciansource
  • Lucius Publilius Celsus, Roman politiciansource