After two hard wars in 101 to 102 and 105 to 106, the Emperor Trajan defeated King Decebalus of Dacia and made his kingdom, in what is now Romania, a Roman province. The gold and silver mines of the Carpathians paid for monuments in Rome such as Trajan's Forum, and Trajan's Column, finished in 113, shows the campaigns in a spiral relief 190 metres long with over 2,500 figures. Latin settlers moved in, and the Romanian language is descended from their speech. Rome abandoned Dacia around 271.
Before and after
- 1st centuryConstruction of Tower of Hercules
- 100 CEBirth of Ptolemy
- from 101 CE to 106 CETrajan's Dacian Wars
- 105 CECai Lun reports the invention of paper
- from 106 CE to 107 CETrajan conquers Dacia
- 113 CETrajan's Column
- from 115 CE to 117 CETrajan's Parthian campaign
- 117 CEThe Roman Empire reaches its greatest extent
- 7 August 117 CEDeath of Trajan
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