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What Happened in 125BC, 25BC, AD25, AD125

Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.

Some Notable Events in 125 BC

Unknown Date. In Rome, Marcus Fulvius Flaccus proposes the extension of Roman citizenship to the northern Italians, but the Senate reacts by sending him off to deal with disturbances around Massilia – and in so doing, commences the conquest of Transalpine Gaul.

Unknown Date. Completion of Aqua Tepula aqueduct in Rome.

Some Notable Events in 25 BC

Unknown Date. Imperator Caesar Augustus becomes Consul for the ninth time. His partner is Marcus Junius Silanus.

Unknown Date. The temple to Neptune on the Circus Flaminius is built.

Unknown Date. Rome, capital of the Roman Empire, becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Chang’an, capital of China.

Some Notable Events in AD 25

Unknown Date. Emperor Tiberius settles a dispute between Messenia and Sparta over the Ager Dentheliales on Mount Taygetus.

Unknown Date. Died. Lucius Antonius, grandson of Mark Antony (b.20 BC).

Some Notable Events in AD 125

Unknown Date. The Pantheon is constructed (in Rome) as it stands today, by Hadrian.

Unknown Date. Emperor Hadrian establishes the Panhellenion.

Unknown Date. Hadrian distributes imperial lands to small farmers.

Unknown Date. Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned.

Unknown Date. Zhang Heng of Han dynasty China invents a hydraulic-powered armillary sphere.

Unknown Date. The Satires of Juvenal intimate that bread and circuses (panem et circenses) keep the Roman people happy.

Unknown Date. Pope Telesphorus succeeds Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope according to Roman Catholic tradition.

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