2nd century in Roman Britain

Events

• * Legio IX Hispana last definitely known to be in Britain.118
• * Governor Quintus Pompeius Falco suppresses a revolt by the Brigantes.
• c. 120
• * Car Dyke constructed over newly drained East Anglian Fens.122
• * Summer – Emperor Hadrian visits Britain, appoints Aulus Platorius Nepos as governor and orders construction of Hadrian's Wall to begin.
• * Construction of forum in Londinium is completed.130
• * Town centre of Wroxeter redeveloped.139
• * Newly appointed Governor Quintus Lollius Urbicus advances to the Clyde-Forth line, reconstructing Corstopitum as a base.142
• * Emperor Antoninus Pius orders the construction of the Antonine Wall across the Central Belt of Scotland.154
• * Governor Gnaeus Julius Verus suppresses a revolt by the Brigantes.
• * Antonine Wall overrun.155
• *Fire destroys much of central Verulamium.158
• * Refortification of Hadrian's Wall begins.160
• * Antonine Wall reoccupied.163
• * Antonine Wall abandoned. Governor Sextus Calpurnius Agricola rebuilds forts along Hadrian's Wall.175
• * 5,500 conscripted Sarmatian cavalry stationed in northern Britain.180
• * Northern tribes breach Hadrian's Wall and ravage the countryside.
• * Governor Ulpius Marcellus launches punitive campaigns to the north.185
• * Marcellus forced to retreat to Hadrian's Wall.
• * Roman army in Britain mutinies. Pertinax appointed as governor and suppresses mutiny.187
• * Pertinax resigns, after becoming unpopular with the army.192
• * Clodius Albinus, Governor of Britain, briefly proclaimed Emperor, but instead acquiesces to the rival claim of Septimius Severus.196
• * Albinus proclaims himself "Augustus" and invades Gaul, seeking to overthrow Severus.197
• * 19 February – Albinus defeated at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul; Severus appoints Virius Lupus as governor.
• * Maeatae launch raids against Hadrian's Wall.