| Year | Month | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 76 | January 24 | Publius Aelius Hadrianus born in Italica, Spain (son of P. Hadrianus and Domitia Paula of Gades) |
| ca. 85 | Death of Hadrian's father. Trajan and P. Acilius Attianus appointed his guardians | |
| 90/91 | Hadrian visits Rome | |
| 93 | XV Vir Stlitibus Judicandis | |
| 94/95 | Tribunus: Legio II Adiutrix | |
| 95/96 | Tribunus: Legio V Macedonica (Lower Moesia: Rumania) | |
| 97 | November | Sent to congragulate Trajan, who had been named 'Caesar" |
| Tribunus: Legio XXII Primigenia | ||
| 98 | February | Hadrian sent from Mainz to Cologne to congratulate Trajan on becoming 'Augustus' |
| 100 | Hadrian marries Vibia Sabina (Trajan's sister's grand-daughter) | |
| 101 | Quaestor (candidatus Caesaris) | |
| 101 | Spring | Hadrian with Trajan in Dacia; twice decorated |
| 103/104 | Ab actis | |
| 105 | Tribunus Plebis | |
| 106? | Praetor | |
| 107 | Legatus Augusti pro praetore (Pannonia Inferior: Hungary/Serbia) | |
| 108 | May-October | Consul Suffectus |
| 111/112 | Archon in Athens | |
| 113-117 | Parthian War. Hadrian on Trajan's staff. | |
| 115-117 | Jewish Revolt (Lusius Quietus). Massacres in Alexandria and Egypt | |
| 117 | Summer | Legatus Augusti pro praetore (Syria) |
| 117 | August 9 | Hadrian proclaimed Trajan's successor as Augustus |
| 118 | July 9 | Hadrien enters Rome as Augustus. Consul II |
| 119 | Consul III, with Attianus. Their successors were Marcius Turbo and Septicius Clarus | |
| Visitation of Italy | ||
| 121 | Visitations of Gaul, the Danube and the Rhine | |
| 122 | Visitation of Britain (Hadrian's Wall) | |
| Return to Gaul. Death of Trajan's widow Plotina. A basilica and a temple dedicated to her at Nimes | ||
| Return to Rome. Discovery of suspicious activities involving his wife, the Commander of the Praetorian Guard (Septicius Clarus), and the ab Epistulis (Suetonius Tranquillus). Suetonius and Septicius were dismissed from office. | ||
| Visitation of Spain (Hadrian was at Gades in late Spring); Visitation of Mauretania | ||
| Visitation of Crete and Asia Minor (Hadrian at Ephesus), Lycia and Pamphylia, Cappadocia (Hadrian at Melitene) | ||
| 123 | Visitation of Syria (Hadrian at Antioch and Palmyra) | |
| 124 | Visitation of Bithynia. First meeting of Antonoos | |
| Visitation of Pannonia. The foundation of Aquincum. Visitation of Dacia. Winter in Athens. | ||
| 125 | Visitation of the Aegean Islands | |
| 126 | Initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries. Winter in Athens. | |
| 127 | March-October | Visitation of Italy |
| 128 | April 21 | Dedication of the Temple of Venus and Roma. Sabina Augusta. |
| August | Second Eastern Visitation. Athens. Dedication of the Olympieion. | |
| 129 | beginning | Ephesos. Antioch. |
| 130 | Judaea. Jerusalem colonized as Aelia Capitolina. Gaza. Arabia. Egypt. Death of Antonoos on November 21 at Thebes. | |
| 131 | Spring | Syria. Antioch. |
| 132 | Athens. The Balkans (foundation of Hadrianopolis) | |
| The Bar-Kochba Revolt (132-135) | ||
| 133 | Hadrian returns to Judaea | |
| 135 | Palastina-Syria | |
| 136 | mid | Adoption of L. Ceionius Commodus as Lucius Verus (died January 1, 138). Death of Sabina. |
| 138 | February 25 | Adoption of T. Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius as Antoninus Pius; Antoninus adopts M. Annius Verus as Marcus Aurelius and L. Ceionius Commodus as Lucius Verus. |
| 138 | July 10 | Death of the Emperor Hadrian at the age of 62. |
Stuart Perowne, Hadrian (London 1960).
Wilhelm Weber, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kaisers Hadrianus (Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1973 [Leipzig 1907]).
J. Dürr, Reisen des Kaisers Hadrianus (1881).
B. d' Orgeval, L' empéreur Hadrien, oeuvre législative et administrative (Paris 1950)
Fergus Millar, The Roman Emperor (London: Duckworth 1977)
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