Editing AD 118 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Trajan's Forum]] (commissioned by the late Emperor [[Trajan]]) is completed with triumphal arches, columns, a [[Market (place)|market]] complex, and an enormous [[Basilica Ulpia|basilica]], all of which replace hundreds of [[dwelling]]s.
* Emperor [[Hadrian]] is also a [[List of Early Imperial Roman Consuls|Roman Consul]].
* [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] has a population exceeding 1 million, making it the largest city in the world.
* [[Osroene]] is returned to native rule by the [[Roman Empire]].
* Plot of the consuls:  Hadrian executes four [[Roman Senate|senators]], all former consuls, who had been shown to have plotted against him.  His relations with the Senate are strained.
* [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]], in Rome, starts to be built (approximate date).
* 118&ndash;[[AD 128|128]] &ndash; Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts, from [[Hadrian's Villa]], [[Tivoli, Italy]], is made (approximate date). It may be a copy of a painting done by the late [[5th century BC]] Greek artist [[Zeuxis (painter)|Zeuxis]]. It is now kept at [[Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]], [[Preussischer Kulturbesitz]], [[Antikensammlung]].

==== Asia ====
* The north-south feud between the [[Huns|Hun]] Dynasty ends.
* The oldest known painted depiction of a [[wheelbarrow]] is found in a Chinese tomb of [[Chengde]], [[Sichuan]] province, dated to this year.
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