Editing AD 138

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Year '''138''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CXXXVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 891 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 138 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* [[February 25]] &ndash; Emperor [[Hadrian]] makes [[Antoninus Pius]] his successor, on condition that he adopt [[Marcus Aurelius]] and [[Lucius Verus]]. 
* [[July 10]] &ndash; Hadrian dies after a [[heart failure]] at [[Baiae]], and is buried at [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] in the [[Horti Domitiae|Gardens of Domitia]] beside his wife, [[Vibia Sabina]].
* Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as [[Roman Emperor]], and asks the [[Roman Senate|Senate]] to confer divine honors for Hadrian.
* Construction begins on the Theater of Philadelphia ([[Amman]]).
* [[Hadrian's Villa]], [[Tivoli, Italy]], is finished.

=== By topic ===
==== Commerce ====
* The [[silver]] content of the Roman [[denarius]] falls to 75 percent under Emperor Antoninus Pius, down from 87 percent under Hadrian.

== Births ==
* [[Emperor Zhi of Han China|Han Zhidi]], Chinese emperor of the [[Han dynasty|Han Dynasty]] (d. [[AD 146|146]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Higham |first1=Charles |title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations |date=2014 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-0996-1 |page=125 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1c1UIEVH9gC&pg=PA125 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus|Marcus Ummidius Quadratus]], Roman politician (d. [[182]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Lucius Aelius|Lucius Aelius Caesar]], Roman politician and adopted son of Hadrian (b. [[AD 101|101]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Hadrian]], Roman emperor died at [[Baie]] (b. [[AD 76]])<ref name=leglay>{{cite book | title=A History of Rome | edition=Second | first1=Marcel | last1=LeGlay | first2=Jean-Louis | last2=Voisin | first3=Yann | last3=Le Bohec | page=284 | publisher=Blackwell | place=Malden, Massachusetts | year=2001 | isbn=0-631-21858-0}}</ref>
* [[Zenobius]], Greek [[sophist]] and writer (b. [[AD 117|117]])

== References ==
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