118

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century
Decades:	80s 90s 100s – 110s – 120s 130s 140s
Years:	115 116 117 – 118 – 119 120 121

118 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 118 (CXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

The Roman Forum, which had been commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan, is finished.
Roman Emperor Hadrian is also a Roman Consul.
Osroene is returned to native rule by the Roman Empire.
Plot of the consuls: Hadrian executes four senators, all former consuls, who had been shown to have plotted against him. His relations with the Senate are strained.
Pantheon, Rome, is started to built (approximate date).
118–128 – Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts, from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is made (approximate date). It may be a copy of painting done by the late-5th century BC Greek artist Zeuxis. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.

The north-south feud between the Hun dynasty ends.
The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.