2nd Century
- 101/102– First Dacian War
- 105/106– Second Dacian War; king Decebalus commits suicide and Dacia becomes a province
- 106– Building of Trajan's Forum and construction of Trajan's column
- 113/117– Trajan's successful campaigns against the Parthian Empire
- 115/117– Jewish rebellion that started in Egypt (Kitos War)
- 117– Hadrian becomes emperor
- 121/125– Hadrian travels through the Northern Empire
- 122– construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
- 128/132– Hadrian travels through Africa and the Eastern Empire
- 131/135 - Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt
- 138– Antoninus Pius becomes emperor
- 140/143– After a rebellion Antoninus conquers Scotland; construction of Antonine Wall begins
- 150/163– rebellions in Scotland, Antonine Wall is abandoned and reoccupied several times
- 161– Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor
- 162/166– Lucius Verus successful campaigns against the Parthian Empire
- 167– The tribe of the Marcomanni crosses the Danube and invades Dacia
- 168/175– Marcus Aurelius' campaigns against the Marcomanni
- 180– Death of Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five good emperors; Commodus becomes emperor
- 184– Antonine Wall abandoned for the last time
- 193– Commodus is murdered. After the short reigns of Pertinax and Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus becomes emperor. There is opposition from first Pescennius Niger and then Clodius Albinus
- 197– Septimius Severus secures the empire after the battle of Lugdunum
- 198– Septimius Severus invades Parthia
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