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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   79. || Titus succeeded Vespasian. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   81. || Domitian. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   84. || North Britain annexed. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   96. || Nerva began the so-called dynasty of the Antonines. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   98. || Trajan succeeded Nerva. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 102. || Pan Chau on the Caspian Sea. (Indo-Scythians invading North India.) |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 117. || Hadrian succeeded Trajan. Roman Empire at its greatest extent. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 138. || Antoninus Pius succeeded Hadrian.
(The Indo-Scythians at this time were destroying the last traces of Hellenic rule in India.) |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 150. || [About this time Kanishka reigned in India, Kashgar, Yarkand, and Kotan.] |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 161. || Marcus Aurelius succeeded Antoninus Pius. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 164. || Great plague began, and lasted to the death of M. Aurelius (180). This also devastated all Asia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 180. || Death of Marcus Aurelius.
(Nearly a century of war and disorder began in the Roman Empire.) |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 220. || End of the Han dynasty. Beginning of four hundred years of division in China. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 227. || Ardashir I (first Sassanid shah) put an end to Arsacid line in Persia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 242. || Mani began his teaching. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 247. || Goths crossed Danube in a great raid. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 251. || Great victory of Goths. Emperor Decius killed. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 260. || Sapor I, the second Sassanid shah, took Antioch, captured the Emperor Valerian, and was cut up on his return from Asia Minor by Odenathus of Palmyra. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 269. || The Emperor Claudius defeated the Goths at Nish. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 270. || Aurelian became emperor. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 272. || Zenobia carried captive to Rome. End of the brief glories of Palmyra. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 275. || Probus succeeded Aurelian. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 276. || Goths in Pontus. The Emperor Probus forced back Franks and Alemanni. |}