Trajan - Early life and rise to power. Trajan was the son of M. Ulpius Traianus, a prominent senator and general from the famous gens Ulpia. The family had settled in the province of Hispania Baetica in what is now Andalusia, a province that was as utterly Romanized as southern Hispania. Trajan himself was just one of many well-known Ulpii in a line that continued long after his own death. He was born on September 18, 53, in the city of Italica. As a young man, he rose through the ranks of the Roman ...

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It was traditionally thought that the Column was a propagandistic monument, glorifying the emperor's military exploits. However, the structure would have been generally invisible and surrounded by other buildings in Trajan's Forum, and because of the difficulty involved in following the frieze from end to end, it is now considered to have had much less propaganda value. Based on the inscription, the column may have been a measuring guide for the construction of the forum. After Trajan's death in 117, the Roman Senate voted to have Trajan's ashes buried in the Column's base in a gol ...

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107 - Events. Trajan divided the Pannonia into two portions sometimes between 102 and this year. Trajan defeated and killed Decebalus, Dacia was pacified. Trajan's forces annexed Arabia Petrea First year of yongchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. 107 - Deaths. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and theologian. Titus, disciple of Paul (traditional date) Category: 107Including:

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116 - Events. Roman Emperor Trajan completes his invasion of Parthia by capturing the cities of Seleucia, Ctesiphon and Susa, marking the high-water mark of the Roman Empire's eastern expansion. Trajan removes Osroes I as king of Parthia, and appoints his son Parthamaspates in his place. 116 - Births. 116 - Deaths. Category: 116 ...

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113 - Events. Trajan starts an expedition against Parthia and annexes Armenia. Trajan's Column is erected in Rome. Last (7th) year of Yongchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. Start of the eastern war, Osroes of Parthia violated the treaty with Rome by installing a puppet ruler in Armenia, the 60 years old Trajan marched east. Inaugration of "Pattini dheivam" worship in Kannagi temple in Chera kingdom in South India, by Emperor Cenkuttuvan; the function atten ...

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Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras (Dniester or Nistru, now in eastern Moldova). It thus corresponds in the main to modern Romania and Moldova. The capital of Dacia was Sarmizegetusa. The inhabitants of this district are considered as belonging to the Thracian stock. Ancient writers are unanimous in ...

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106 - Events. Trajan defeats king Decebalus of Dacia (Romania). Dacia becomes a Roman province. Petra becomes part of the Roman Empire. Aelian writes his Taktike Theoria (probable date). Change of Han Hedi to Han Shangdi of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. First and the only year of yanping era. Change of Han Shangdi to Han Andi of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. 106 - Deaths. Han Hedi of the Chinese Eastern ...

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117 - Events. Trajan subdued a Judean revolt, then fell seriously ill, leaving Hadrian in command of the east. Emperor Trajan dies, leaving the Roman Empire at its maximal territorial extent. Hadrian, who will reign until 138, succeeds him. Hadrian returns large parts of Mesopotamia to the Parthians as part of a peace settlement. Jewish revolt in eastern part of the Roman Empire conclusively suppressed. Construction begins on the Pantheon in Rome. J ...

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105 - Events. The Chinese refine papermaking. Pope Alexander I succeeds Pope Evaristus. Trajan starts the second expedition against Dacia. Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix and II Traiana Fortis are created by Trajan. Last year (17th) of yongyuan era and start of yuanxing era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Plutarch to Patriarch Sedecion. The Romans conquer Kerak from the Nabatean ...

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Burs were an ancient people. They are depicted on the Adamclisi roman triumphant monument in Dobrogea and on Trajan's Column as allies of the Dacians. Roman Emperor Commodus settled the Burs in Dacia after several clashes with them. Bur is also an anglicization of the name of the god Burr or Borr in Norse mythology. Other related archivesAdamclisi, Burr or Borr, Commodus, Dacia, Dacians, Dobrogea, Norse mythology, Trajan's Column, anglicization

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98 - Events. Roman emperor Nerva succeeded by Trajan Tacitus finished his Germania (approximate date) 98 - Births. 98 - Deaths. January 27: Nerva, Roman emperor Apollonius of Tyana, Greek/Roman philosopher and mathematician (b. March 13, 2) Category: 98 ...

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115 - Events. Pope Sixtus I succeeds Pope Alexander I Jews in Egypt and Cyrene ignite a revolt against the rule of the Roman Empire, which spreads to Cyprus, Judea, and the Roman province of Mesopotamia. Trajan was cut off in southern Mesopotamia after his invasion of that region and captures of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon. Category: 115 ...

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101 - Events. Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia. Battle of Tapae Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses. The Chinese (Tibetan) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia. 101 - Births. Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician 101 - Deaths. Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire) alth ...

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114 - Events. First year of Yuanchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Sedecion to Patriarch Diogenes. The triumphal arch was erected in Benevento. The kingdom of Osroene becomes a vassal kingdom of the Roman Empire. Trajan defeated the Parthians and overran Armenia and northern Mesopotamia 114 - Births. Justin Martyr, Christian apologist (possible date) ...

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Appian (c.95-c.165, Gr. Αππιανος), of Alexandria was a Roman historian who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was born ca. AD 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he repaired to Rome ca. 120, where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors. In 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto. The position of procurator was ...

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2nd century - Significant persons. Cai Lun, Chinese inventor Galen, medical writer Saint Irenaeus Pliny the Younger Plutarch Ptolemy Trajan Hadrian Antoninus Pius Marcus Aurelius Commodus Septimius Severus 2nd century - Inventions discoveries introductions. Cai Lun invents paper (c. 105) Ptolemy compiles a catalogue of all stars visible to the naked eye ...

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201 - Events. November: flood in Edessa Earliest trace of the Kyrgyz 201 - Births. Roman emperor Trajan Decius 201 - Deaths. Possible death of Claudius Galen of Pergamum (see 210) Category: 201 ...

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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 0s BC - 0s - 10s - 20s - 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s - 100s Years: 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 97 - Events. Pope Evaristus succeeds Pope Clement I Tacitus advanced to consulship. Roman emperor Nerva named Trajan as his adoptive son and successor in summer, by doing so he also averted a threatened mutiny of the Praetorian Guard and other military units. Chine ...

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249 - Events. Trajan Decius becomes Roman emperor. Sima Yi possesses complete control of the Kingdom of Wei and starts the foundation of the Jin Kingdom which becomes the Jin Dynasty 249 - Births. Sima Lun, usurper of the Jin Dynasty in China (possible date) 249 - Deaths. Wang Pi, Chinese philosopher Philip the Arab, Roman emperor Category: 249Including:

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