This circular edifice, constructed by Agrippa in B.C. 27, was rebuilt in its present shape by the Emperor Hadrian.

He was next appointed by the Emperor Hadrian as one of the four proconsuls to administer Italia, then greatly increased his reputation by his conduct as proconsul of Asia, probably during 134 – 135.

He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

When the Roman Emperor Hadrian vowed to rebuild Jerusalem from the wreckage in 130 AD, he considered reconstructing Jerusalem as a gift for the Jewish people.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.

The draining of the lake was revisited many times in history, including by Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Middle Ages.

The most extensive account of the life of Domitian to survive was written by the historian Suetonius, who was born during the reign of Vespasian, and published his works under Emperor Hadrian ( 117 – 138 ).

" Many eminent figures sought conversations with him, and the Emperor Hadrian was friendly with him and may have listened to him speak at his school in Nicopolis.

* 138 – The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.

Thus, most knowledge of Roman Britain has derived from archaeological investigations, and the epigraphic evidence lauding the Britannic achievements of an Emperor of Rome, such as Hadrian ( r. 117 – 38 ) and Antoninus Pius ( r. 138 – 61 ), whose walls demarcated the northern borders of Roman Britain.

Hadrian ( 24 January 76 – 10 July 138 ), was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138.

When the Emperor Hadrian asked the Oracle at Delphi about Homer, the Pythia proclaimed that he was Ithacan, the son of Epikaste and Telemachus, from the Odyssey.

In 131, the Emperor Hadrian renamed Jerusalem " Aelia Capitolina " and constructed a Temple of Jupiter on the site of the former Jewish temple.

The revolt was eventually crushed by Emperor Hadrian himself.

* 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae ; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

* 76 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor ( d. 138 )

The Emperor Hadrian patronized the young Marcus, and may have planned to make him his long-term successor.

In 127, at the age of six, Marcus was enrolled in the equestrian order on the recommendation of Emperor Hadrian.

Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD some 638 years after the project had begun.

Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Trajan or Hadrian, but this is improbable.

A later tradition holds that in the reign of Emperor Hadrian, Alexander I converted the Roman governor Hermes by miraculous means, together with his entire household of 1, 500 souls.

A second, larger, expedition sent by Emperor Kangxi expelled the Dzungars from Tibet in 1720 and the troops were hailed as liberators.

Depending on the version of the legend, the Jews in Prague were to be either expelled or killed under the rule of Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Thietmar of Merseburg says that the first archbishop of Magdeburg, Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg, before being promoted to this high rank, was sent by Emperor Otto to the country of the Rus ' ( Rusciae ) as a simple bishop but was expelled by pagan allies of Svyatoslav I.

* February 28-In the aftermath of the 1613 – 1614 anti-Jewish pogrom called the Fettmilch Uprising, in Frankfurt, Germany, mob leader Vincenz Fettmilch is beheaded, but the Jews, who had been expelled from the city on August 23, 1614, following the plundering of the Judengasse, can only return as a result of direct intervention by Holy Roman Emperor Matthias.

When the French Emperor Napoleon took Rome and expelled Pope Pius VII in 1809, Cappellari fled to Murano.

A few years later Ulrich quarrelled with the Swabian League, and its forces ( helped by William IV, Duke of Bavaria, angered by the treatment meted out by Ulrich to his wife Sabina, a Bavarian princess ), invaded Württemberg, expelled the duke and sold his duchy to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, for 220, 000 gulden.

In 1496 all Jews were expelled from Styria by order of Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg.

Following this cultural catastrophe, the Imperial Court relocated to the Forbidden City, where it stayed until 1922, when the Last Emperor, Puyi, was expelled by a republican army.

In response, an expedition sent by the Emperor, together with Tibetan forces under Polhanas ( also spelled Polhaney ) of Tsang and Kanchenas ( also spelled Gangchenney ), the governor of Western Tibet, expelled the Zunghars from Tibet in 1720.

Around 93, Emperor Domitian ( 81-96 ) expelled philosophers from Rome, including the Stoic philosopher Epiktetos, who went to Nicopolis where he died around AD 135.

The Persian conquest allowed Miaphysitism to resurface in the open in Egypt, and when imperial rule was restored by Emperor Heraclius in 629, the Miaphysites were persecuted and their patriarch expelled.

In the early 16th century, the Yuzufzai were expelled from Kabul by Governor Ulugh Beg Mirza, who was a paternal uncle of the Mughal Emperor Babur.

In 1726 Yunsi was expelled from the imperial household after a series of unjust accusations of incompetence made against him by the Yongzheng Emperor.

Priscilla and Aquila had been among the Jews expelled from Rome by the Roman Emperor Claudius in the year 49 as written by Suetonius.

According to, before Paul meets them in Corinth, they were part of a group of Jews whom the Emperor Claudius ordered expelled from Rome ; if this edict of the Emperor can be dated, then we would be able to infer when Paul arrived in Corinth.

The byzantine Emperor expelled the Eastern Goths ( Ostrogoths ).

The town then also had a significant Jewish commune with Rabbi Israel Isserlin as its most notable member, until all Jews were expelled by order of Emperor Maximilian I in 1496.

In 1783 the Servites were expelled from Prague and in 1785 Emperor Joseph II desecrated the shrine of Maria Waldrast.

In 66, Lepida's husband and nephew were expelled from Rome by Emperor Nero for being a part in Gaius Calpurnius Piso's conspiracy.

In the 16th century, the Jadoons joined the Yusufzai, who had been expelled from Kabul by Mirza Ulugh Beg, a paternal uncle of the Mughal Emperor Babur, and they migrated eastwards into the Peshawar region and settled in areas inhabited by the Dilazak tribe of the Afghans.

* The overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Mengistu Haile Mariam who then set up one-party Marxist-Leninist rule in Ethiopia by the communist Workers ' Party of Ethiopia, 1977 – 1991, until they were defeated and expelled by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front during a subsequent civil war.

Wang Bo wrote a playful piece entitled the Declaration Against the Prince of Zhou's Cock ( 檄周王雞文 ), which, however, when Emperor Gaozong read it, caused Emperor Gaozong to be angry, as he believed this would cause discord between his sons, and therefore expelled Wang from the Pei mansion.