2nd century
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| Centuries: | 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century |
| Decades: | 100s 110s 120s 130s 140s 150s 160s 170s 180s 190s |
The 2nd century is the period from 101 - 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
Events
- 96–180: Five Good Emperors of Rome: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
- The kingdom of Aksum emerges
- 122–132: Hadrian's Wall across Britain
- 132–135: Bar Kokhba's revolt against Rome
- 144: Marcion, rejected by Church of Rome, founds Marcionism
- 167-175: First Marcomanni War
- 178-180: Second Marcomanni War (depicted in the movie Gladiator)
Significant persons
- Rabbi Akiva Head of all the Jewish Sages
- Rabbi Yehuda haNasi Prince of the Jewish people
- Commodus, Roman Emperor, claimed to be Hercules reincarnated
- Galen, medical writer
- Irenaeus, 2nd Bishop of Lyons
- Montanus, Christian heretic
- Nagarjuna, founder of Madhyamaka Buddhism
- Pliny the Younger
- Plutarch, Roman historian
- Ptolemy, Greek astronomer
- Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor
- Suetonius, Roman historian
- Valentinius, most famous Christian Gnostic
- Zhang Daoling, Taoist hermit, ascended to heaven
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Cai Lun invents paper (c. 105)
- Ptolemy compiles a catalogue of all stars visible to the naked eye.
- 132: Zhang Heng invents first seismometer