AD 128

"128 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 128 BC.

Year 128 (CXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calpurnius and Libo (or, less frequently, year 881 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 128 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

128 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	128 CXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	881
Assyrian calendar	4878
Balinese saka calendar	49–50
Bengali calendar	−466 – −465
Berber calendar	1078
Buddhist calendar	672
Burmese calendar	−510
Byzantine calendar	5636–5637
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2825 or 2618     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 2826 or 2619
Coptic calendar	−156 – −155
Discordian calendar	1294
Ethiopian calendar	120–121
Hebrew calendar	3888–3889
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	184–185
- Shaka Samvat	49–50
- Kali Yuga	3228–3229
Holocene calendar	10128
Iranian calendar	494 BP – 493 BP
Islamic calendar	509 BH – 508 BH
Javanese calendar	3–4
Julian calendar	128 CXXVIII
Korean calendar	2461
Minguo calendar	1784 before ROC 民前1784年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1340
Seleucid era	439/440 AG
Thai solar calendar	670–671
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 254 or −127 or −899     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 255 or −126 or −898

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Hadrian visits the Roman province of North Africa, in order to inspect Legio III Augusta stationed at Lambaesis. For strategic reasons, the legionnaires are located in the Aurès Mountains.
• Hadrian's Wall is completed in Britain. Built mostly of stone in the east and with a wooden palisade in the west. They construct at least 16 forts, with about 15,000 legionaries digging ditches, quarrying rock and cutting stone, preventing idleness which led to unrest and rebellions in the ranks.
• Roman agriculture declines, as imports from Egypt and North Africa depress wheat prices, making it unprofitable to farm, and forcing many farmers off the land.
• Roman bakeries produce dozens of bread varieties, and the Romans distribute free bread for the poor.
• Hadrian begins his inspection of the provinces of Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt.

Asia

• King Gaeru of Baekje succeeds to the throne of Baekje in the Korean peninsula (until 166).^[1]

By topic

Arts and sciences

• The fossils of large prehistoric animals are discovered in Dalmatia.
• The Pantheon in Rome is finished.

Births

• Xun Shuang, Chinese politician and writer (d. 190)^[2]

Deaths

• Giru of Baekje, Korean ruler^[1]