Chapter 2 Page 7 ।। 2nd Century 👦 GLIMPSES OF WORLD HISTORY ।। A Book of Brief Historical Accounts ।। Events: Year wise ।। Compiled & Edited by Rabi Roy

Second Century: 101 - 200 AD

105 AD: Chinese government servant named Ts’ai Lun invents paper, made from hemp waste, mulberry fibers, rags, and other materials. (It would take many centuries for this invention to travel west, reaching Samarkand, Central Asia, in 751 and Baghdad in 793, arriving in Europe in the 12th century.)

107 A D: Persecution of Christians.

117 A D: Hadrian rules Rome (till 138), establishes a postal system and codifies Roman law.

122 A D: Emperor Hadrian begins construction on a 117 km (73 mile) long wall between England and Scotland. (Parts of the Hadrian wall still stands.)

125 A D: Christians persecuted.

127 A D: Alexandrian astronomer, cartographer, and mathematician Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) publishes Almagest, in which he catalogued 1,022 stars – the previous known number of stars being 850. His work influenced astronomy studies for 14 centuries.

132 A D: First seismoscope developed in China; it detected an earthquake 400 miles away.

136 A D: Jewish revolt (where?), led by Simeon ben Kosiba, suppressed – dispersion of Jewish race.

140 A D: Han Jing-di’s son becomes Emperor Wu of China.

149 A D: 

◙ Chinese dictionary of 10,000 characters produced by Hu Shin. 

◙ Rome begins third war against Carthage, a war that Carthaginians do not seek.

155 A D: 

• Berian Lusitani nation rebels against Rome, who offer peace and land, trap them, killl 9,000 and enslave 20,000. 

• To allow a longer campaign, the Roman Senate moves New Year from March 15 to January 1.

158 A D: Claudius Galen writes that arteries carry blood and explains the action of muscles and nerves.

161 A D: Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor of Rome.

168 A D: Rome divides Macedonia into four republics and forbids contact between the four.

171 A D: Rome declares war against Perseus of Macedonia.

180 A D: 

• Greek physician Galen publishes Methodus Medendo, a system of medicine that will influence medical thinking for over a thousand years. 

• Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius, becomes emperor of Rome.

183 A D: 
Hannibal commits suicide rather than be captured by the Romans.

184 A D: Zhang Jue leads the Yellow Turban rebellion in China.

193 A D: Emperor Commodus was assassinated in Rome.

197 A D: Lucius Septimus Severus, a Syrian, become Rome’s first non-Roman emperor.

200 A D: 

• Palestinian scholar Judah ha-Nasi compiles tracts of the Mishnah, beginning the creation of Jewish Talmudic law. 

• Rome boasts 1.5 million inhabitants, most living in 3 to 8-story-high insulae, apartment blocks made of brick, wood or rubble.

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