The Emperor Hadrian

The Emperor Hadrian Year 76 Month January 24 Event Publius Aelius Hadrianus born in Italica, Spain (son of P. Hadrianus and Domitia Paula of Gades) ca. 85 Death of Hadrian's father. Trajan and P. Acilius Attianus appointed his guardians 90/91 Hadrian visits Rome 93 XV Vir Stlitibus Judicandis 94/95 Tribunus: Legio II Adiutrix 95/96 Tribunus: Legio V Macedonica (Lower Moesia: Rumania) 97 November Sent to congragulate Trajan, who had been named 'Caesar" Tribunus: Legio XXII Primigenia 98 February Hadrian sent from Mainz to Cologne to congratulate Trajan on becoming 'Augustus' 100 Hadrian marries Vibia Sabina (Trajan's sister's grand-daughter) 101 Quaestor (candidatus Caesaris) 101 Spring Hadrian with Trajan in Dacia; twice decorated 103/104 Ab actis 105 Tribunus Plebis 106? Praetor 107 Legatus Augusti pro praetore (Pannonia Inferior: Hungary/Serbia) 108 MayOctober Consul Suffectus 111/112 Archon in Athens 113117 Parthian War. Hadrian on Trajan's staff. 115117 Jewish Revolt (Lusius Quietus). Massacres in Alexandria and Egypt 117 Summer Legatus Augusti pro praetore (Syria) 117 August 9 Hadrian proclaimed Trajan's successor as Augustus 118 July 9 Hadrien enters Rome as Augustus. Consul II 119 Consul III, with Attianus. Their successors were Marcius Turbo and Septicius Clarus Visitation of Italy 121 Visitations of Gaul, the Danube and the Rhine 122 Visitation of Britain (Hadrian's Wall) Return to Gaul. Death of Trajan's widow Plotina. A basilica and a temple dedicated to her at Nimes Return to Rome. Discovery of suspicious activities involving his wife, the Commander of the Praetorian Guard (Septicius Clarus), and the ab Epistulis (Suetonius Tranquillus). Suetonius and Septicius were dismissed from office. Visitation of Spain (Hadrian was at Gades in late Spring); Visitation of Mauretania Visitation of Crete and Asia Minor (Hadrian at Ephesus), Lycia and Pamphylia, Cappadocia (Hadrian at Melitene) 123 Visitation of Syria (Hadrian at Antioch and Palmyra) 124 Visitation of Bithynia. First meeting of Antonoos Visitation of Pannonia. The foundation of Aquincum. Visitation of Dacia. Winter in Athens. 125 Visitation of the Aegean Islands 126 Initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries. Winter in Athens. 127 MarchOctober Visitation of Italy 128 April 21 Dedication of the Temple of Venus and Roma. Sabina Augusta. August Second Eastern Visitation. Athens. Dedication of the Olympieion. beginning Ephesos. Antioch. 129 130 131 Judaea. Jerusalem colonized as Aelia Capitolina. Gaza. Arabia. Egypt. Death of Antonoos on November 21 at Thebes. Spring 132 Syria. Antioch. Athens. The Balkans (foundation of Hadrianopolis) The Bar-Kochba Revolt (132-135) 133 Hadrian returns to Judaea 135 Palastina-Syria 136 mid Adoption of L. Ceionius Commodus as Lucius Verus (died January 1, 138). Death of Sabina. 138 February 25 Adoption of T. Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius as Antoninus Pius; Antoninus adopts M. Annius Verus as Marcus Aurelius and L. Ceionius Commodus as Lucius Verus. 138 July 10 Death of the Emperor Hadrian at the age of 62. Bibliography Stuart Perowne, Hadrian (London 1960). Wilhelm Weber, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kaisers Hadrianus (Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1973 [Leipzig 1907]). J. Dürr, Reisen des Kaisers Hadrianus (1881). B. d' Orgeval, L' empéreur Hadrien, oeuvre législative et administrative (Paris 1950) Fergus Millar, The Roman Emperor (London: Duckworth 1977)