Editing AD 84 (section)

== Events ==

=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire  ====
* Possible date of the [[Battle of Mons Graupius]] ([[AD 83]] or 84), in which [[Gnaeus Julius Agricola]] defeats the [[Caledonians]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Mons Graupius UChicago.edu |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/monsgraupius/monsgraupius.html}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=September 2024}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Mons Graupius Omni Atlas |url=https://omniatlas.com/maps/europe/840802/}}</ref>
* Emperor [[Domitian]] recalls Agricola back to [[Ancient Rome|Rome]], where he is rewarded with a [[Roman triumph|triumph]] and the governorship of the Roman province of [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa]], but he declines it.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
* [[Pliny the Younger]] is ''sevir equitum Romanorum'' (commander of a cavalry squadron).{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
* The construction of the [[Limes (Roman Empire)|limes]], a line of Roman fortifications from the [[Rhine]] to the [[Danube]], has begun.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Centre |first=UNESCO World Heritage |title=Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Serbia) |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6475/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |language=en}}</ref>
* Through his election as consul for ten years and censor for life, Domitian openly subordinates the republican aspect of the state to the monarchical.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
* Domitian increases the troops' pay by one third, thus securing their loyalty.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brunt |first=P. A. |date=1950 |title=Pay and Superannuation in the Roman Army |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40310480 |journal=Papers of the British School at Rome |volume=18 |pages=50–71 |doi=10.1017/S0068246200006152 |jstor=40310480 |issn=0068-2462}}</ref>

==== Asia ====
* Change from ''Jianchu'' to ''[[Emperor Zhang of Han|Yuanhe]]'' era of the Chinese Eastern [[Han dynasty|Han Dynasty]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}{{explain|date=October 2023}}