Trajan's Dacian Wars were two campaigns by the Roman emperor Trajan against the Dacian kingdom of Decebalus in what is now Romania, in 101 to 102 and 105 to 106. Dacia had defeated Roman armies in the time of Domitian and was rich in gold and silver. In the first war Trajan won a hard-fought victory and imposed terms, but Decebalus broke them, and the second war ended with the capture of the capital Sarmizegetusa and the suicide of the king. Dacia became a Roman province, and Trajan used its wealth to finance building projects in Rome. The conquest is recorded on Trajan's Column, and the bridge over the Danube, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus, was a notable engineering work.
Before and after
- from 1st century to 7th centuryNazca culture
- c. 100sConstruction of Trajan's Forum
- 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
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