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Events

By place

Roman Empire

* Trajan is cut off in southern Mesopotamia after his invasion of that region.
* Trajan captures the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon.
* 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.
* Alexandria in Egypt is destroyed during the Jewish-Greek civil wars.
* A revolt breaks out in Britain; the garrison at Eboracum (York) is massacred.
* The Pantheon of Agrippa is reconstructed in Rome.
* Lusius Quietus, Trajan's governor of Judea, begins a brutal campaign to maintain the peace in the region.

Asia

* An earthquake destroys Apamea and Antioch in Syria.

By topic

Religion

* Pope Sixtus I succeeds Pope Alexander I as the seventh pope.

Births

* Pausanias, Greek historian and geographer
* Emperor Shun of Han (d. 144)

Deaths

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