Hadrian's Wall
A 117-kilometre wall cuts Roman Britain off from the north
Hadrian gave up new conquests and fortified the frontiers; in Britain from 122 a wall was built from sea to sea with a small fort at every Roman mile. Twenty years later the Antonine Wall further north briefly replaced it, but the frontier then returned to Hadrian's line.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 116 Trajan takes Ctesiphon — 6 years earlier
Africa
- c. 100 The rise of Aksum — 22 years earlier
Asia
- 105 Cai Lun and the invention of paper — 17 years earlier
- 132 Zhang Heng's seismoscope — 10 years later
Alive at the time
- Marcus Aurelius (aged 1)
- Claudius Ptolemy (aged 22)
- Epictetus (aged 72)
- Zhang Heng (aged 44)