136

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Year 136 (CXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Civica (or, less frequently, year 889 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 136 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The war against the Suebi begins. They will be defeated by the senator Tiberius Haterius Nepos Atinas, governor of Pannonia, in 138.
• Emperor Hadrian chases the Jews from Galilee and receives a triumphal arch near Scythopolis.
• The Roman province of Iudaea (plus Galilee) becomes Syria Palaestina, the first use of the name Palestine as a designation for Judea.
• Hadrian dictates his memoirs at his villa near Tivoli (Tibur) outside Rome.
• Hadrian uncovers a new conspiracy among certain senators. He adopts Lucius Aelius as his heir.

Asia

• First year of Yonghe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• Pope Hyginus succeeds Pope Telesphorus as the ninth pope.
• Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Eleutherius to Patriarch Felix.

Deaths

• Rabbi Akiva (b. c. AD 40)

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