Trajan takes Ctesiphon
Legions reach the Persian Gulf, the high tide of Roman conquest
In 114–116 Trajan occupied Armenia and Mesopotamia and took the Parthian capital Ctesiphon; according to Cassius Dio, on the shore of the Persian Gulf he regretted being too old to march on India like Alexander. Revolts behind his lines forced him back, and in 117 Hadrian returned the conquests to Parthia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 106 Trajan conquers Dacia — 10 years earlier
- 122 Hadrian's Wall — 6 years later
- c. 126 The dome of the Pantheon — 10 years later
Africa
- c. 100 The rise of Aksum — 16 years earlier
Asia
- 105 Cai Lun and the invention of paper — 11 years earlier
- 132 Zhang Heng's seismoscope — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Claudius Ptolemy (aged 16)
- Ban Zhao (aged 71)
- Epictetus (aged 66)
- Zhang Heng (aged 38)