AD 125
year
Year 125 (CXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paullinus and Titius (or, less frequently, year 878 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 125 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.
Events
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Roman Empire
The Pantheon is constructed in Rome, as it stands today.
Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, starts to be built (approximate date).
Africa
Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned. (or was it around 125 BC)
Asia
Last (4th) year of the Yanguang era of the Chinese Han dynasty.
Change of emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty from Han Andi to Marquis of Beixiang, then to Han Shundi.
Gautamiputra Satakarni, a king of the Andhra dynasty, conquers the Konkan near Bombay.
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