The Bar Kokhba revolt
The last Jewish war against Rome begins a long exile
When Emperor Hadrian decided to rebuild Jerusalem as the Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina, the Jews revolted under Simon bar Kokhba. Rome crushed the revolt after the fall of the fortress of Betar; hundreds of thousands died. Jews were banned from Jerusalem, and the province was renamed Syria Palaestina.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- c. 150 Ptolemy's Almagest — 18 years later
Asia
- 132 Zhang Heng's seismoscope — same year
Alive at the time
- Marcus Aurelius (aged 11)
- Claudius Ptolemy (aged 32)
- Galen (aged 3)
- Zhang Heng (aged 54)