AD 118

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.
• 118-128 - Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts, from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is made. 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.