The 2nd century is the period from 101 - 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

Events

• 96–180: Five Good Emperors of Rome: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
• The kingdom of Aksum emerges
• 122–132: Hadrian's Wall across Britain
• 132–135: Bar Kokhba's revolt against Rome
• 144: Marcion, rejected by Church of Rome, founds Marcionism
• 167-175: First Marcomanni War
• 178-180: Second Marcomanni War (depicted in the movie Gladiator)

Significant persons

• Rabbi Akiva Head of all the Jewish Sages
• Rabbi Yehuda haNasi Prince of the Jewish people
• Commodus, Roman Emperor, claimed to be Hercules reincarnated
• Galen, medical writer
• Irenaeus, 2nd Bishop of Lyons
• Montanus, Christian heretic
• Nagarjuna, founder of Madhyamaka Buddhism
• Pliny the Younger
• Plutarch, Roman historian
• Ptolemy, Greek astronomer
• Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor
• Suetonius, Roman historian
• Valentinius, most famous Christian Gnostic
• Zhang Daoling, Taoist hermit, ascended to heaven

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Cai Lun invents paper (c. 105)
• Ptolemy compiles a catalogue of all stars visible to the naked eye.
• 132: Zhang Heng invents first seismometer

Decades and years

2nd century | Centuries

2de eeu | 2. Jahrhundert | Sieglo II | 2 стагодзьдзе | 2. vijek | 2 век | Segle II | 2. století | 2. århundrede | 2. Jahrhundert | 2. sajand | 2ος αιώνας | Siglo II | 2-a jarcento | II. mendea | IIe siècle | 2e ieu | Século II | 2세기 | 2. stoljeće | 2ma yar-cento | Abad ke-2 | 2. öldin | II secolo | המאה ה-2 | Abad kaping 2 | 2sa kansblydhen | Saeculum 2 | 2. Joerhonnert | II amžius | Twiede iew | 2. század | 2 век | 2e eeuw | 2世紀 | 2. århundre | 100-talet | II wiek | Século II | Secolul II | II век | Shekulli II | Sèculu II | 2. stoletje | 2. век | 100-luku | 100-talet | 2. yöz | คริสต์ศตวรรษที่ 2 | 2. yüzyıl | 2 століття | 2世纪