AD 118

"118 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 118 BC.

Year 118 (CXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hadrianus and Fuscus (or, less frequently, year 871 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 118 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.

118 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	118 CXVIII
Ab urbe condita	871
Assyrian calendar	4868
Balinese saka calendar	39–40
Bengali calendar	−476 – −475
Berber calendar	1068
Buddhist calendar	662
Burmese calendar	−520
Byzantine calendar	5626–5627
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2815 or 2608     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2816 or 2609
Coptic calendar	−166 – −165
Discordian calendar	1284
Ethiopian calendar	110–111
Hebrew calendar	3878–3879
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	174–175
- Shaka Samvat	39–40
- Kali Yuga	3218–3219
Holocene calendar	10118
Iranian calendar	504 BP – 503 BP
Islamic calendar	520 BH – 518 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	118 CXVIII
Korean calendar	2451
Minguo calendar	1794 before ROC 民前1794年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1350
Seleucid era	429/430 AG
Thai solar calendar	660–661
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 244 or −137 or −909     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 245 or −136 or −908

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Trajan's Forum (commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan) is completed with triumphal arches, columns, a market complex, and an enormous basilica, all of which replace hundreds of dwellings.
• Emperor Hadrian is also a Roman Consul.
• Rome has a population exceeding 1 million, making it the largest city in the world.
• Osroene is returned to native rule by the Roman Empire.
• Plot of the consuls: Hadrian executes four senators, all former consuls, who had been shown to have plotted against him. His relations with the Senate are strained.
• Pantheon, in Rome, starts to be built (approximate date).
• 118–128 – Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts, from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is made (approximate date). It may be a copy of a painting done by the late 5th century BC Greek artist Zeuxis. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung.

Asia

• The north-south feud between the Hun Dynasty ends.
• The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.

Births

Deaths

• August 8 – Primus, patriarch of Alexandria
• Aulus Cornelius Palma, Roman politician
• Bassus of Lucera, Roman bishop and martyr
• Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, Roman politician
• Lucius Publilius Celsus, Roman politician
• Lusius Quietus, Roman general and governor
• Ren Shang, Chinese general of Han Dynasty^[1]
• Terentian, Roman bishop and martyr