2nd century
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Centuries: | 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century |
Decades: | 100s 110s 120s 130s 140s 150s 160s 170s 180s 190s |
The 2nd century is the period from 101 - 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
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[edit] Events
- 96–180: Five Good Emperors of Rome: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
- The kingdom of Aksum emerges
- 120-150: Bulgars migrate to Europe
- 122–132: Hadrian's Wall across Britain
- 132–135: Bar Kokhba's revolt against Rome
- 144: Marcion, rejected by Church of Rome, founds Marcionism
- 167-175: First Marcomanni War
- 178-180: Second Marcomanni War (depicted in the movie Gladiator)
[edit] Significant persons
- Rabbi Akiva Head of all the Jewish Sages
- Rabbi Yehuda haNasi Prince of the Jewish people
- Commodus, Roman Emperor, claimed to be Hercules reincarnated
- Galen, medical writer
- Irenaeus, 2nd Bishop of Lyons
- Montanus, Christian heretic
- Nagarjuna, founder of Madhyamaka Buddhism
- Pliny the Younger
- Plutarch, Roman historian
- Ptolemy, Greek astronomer
- Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor
- Suetonius, Roman historian
- Valentinius, most famous Christian Gnostic
- Zhang Daoling, Taoist hermit, ascended to heaven
[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Cai Lun invents paper (c. 105)
- Ptolemy compiles a catalogue of all stars visible to the naked eye.
- 132: Zhang Heng invents first seismometer
[edit] Decades and years
90s | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 |
100s | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 |
110s | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 |
120s | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 |
130s | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 |
140s | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 |
150s | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 |
160s | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 |
170s | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 |
180s | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 |
190s | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 |
200s | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 |
Centuries and Millenniums