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Hadrian: emperor of the Roman world (r. 117-138).

Hadrian (Hippo Regius)

Names:

• 24 January 76: Publius Aelius Hadrianus
• 11 August 117: Imperator Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus
• 10 July 138: natural death

Refused titles: Optimus, Germanicus, Dacicus, Parthicus

Successor of: Trajan

Relatives:

• father: Publius Aelius Hadrianus
• mother: Domitia Paulina
• married to: Vibia Sabina, daughter of Matidia

Early career

• 76 Born in Italica
• Xvir stlitibus iudicandis
• Prefect of the Latin festival
• c.96 Military tribune in II Adiutrix
• 
  Hadrian
  96-97 Military tribune in V Macedonica
• 97-98 Military tribune in XXII Primigenia
• c.100: Marriage to Sabina
• 101 Quaestor; takes part in Trajan's Dacian war
• 102 Tribune
• 105 Praetor
• 105-106 Commander of I Minervia
• 106-108 Propraetor of Pannonia Inferior
• 108 Consul
• 115 Takes part in Trajan's Parthian campaign
• 117 Proconsul of Syria; stay in Antioch

Main deeds

Buildings

• 
  Relief of Hadrian, perhaps killing a Jew
  Athens: many buildings
• Britain: Hadrian's wall
• Jerusalem
• Lepcis Magna: Baths
• Rome: Pantheon; Bridge of Aelius; repairs to the Baths of Agrippa; Mausoleum; Trajan's column; temple of Venus and Roma
• Tivoli: Villa

Contemporary events

• 120 Tacitus' Annales
• 125 Juvenal's Satires
• 135 Epictetus, Encheiridion

Succeeded by: Antoninus Pius

Links

• 
  Hadrian (Perge)
  biography in the Historia Augusta
• Apollodorus of Damascus
• Bar Kochba
• Lucius Aelius

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