The Antonine Wall was a Roman frontier fortification built across central Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde, on the orders of Emperor Antoninus Pius. It was made of turf on a stone base, with a ditch to the north, and it had forts spaced along its length connected by a military road. It extended Roman control further north than Hadrian's Wall, which lay about a hundred miles to the south. The Romans abandoned it after about twenty years and moved back to Hadrian's Wall, though they may have briefly reoccupied it. Its purpose and the Roman relations with the northern tribes remain debated. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Before and after
- from 132 CE to 136 CEBar Kokhba revolt
- 132 CEZhang Heng builds the first seismoscope
- 135 CEOrigins of Temple of Venus and Roma
- c. 135 CEConstruction of Castel Sant'Angelo
- 142 CEConstruction of Antonine Wall
- 142 CEOrigins of Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
- 150 CEBirth of Nagarjuna
- c. 150sPtolemy writes the Almagest
- 161 CEOrigins of Odeon of Herodes Atticus
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