The 2nd Century A.D. - History Summary
  Summary of Events:  
 
Year Event
100 Roman Empire at its peak
c. 105 Paper manufacture begins in China
120 Earliest Chinese dictionary, by Hsu Shen
122 Hadrian begins building of wall in Britain
132 Jewish rebellion and dispersion
c. 150 Buddism reaches China
c. 150 Ptolemy devises his theory of astronomy
 
  Source:
D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)