It is believed that the Antonine Plague was smallpox, because though his description is incomplete, Galen gave enough information to enable a firm identification of the disease.

* Antonine Plague, 165 – 180.

To make matters worse, the Antonine Plague swept through the capital in 166.

The Antonine Plague had severely thinned the senatorial ranks and with capable men now in short supply, Severus ' career advanced more steadily than it otherwise might have.

* A pandemic known as the Antonine Plague breaks out in Rome after the Roman army returns from Parthia.

* Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165 – 189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East

At this time, there was a second outbreak of the Antonine Plague, which at its height from 251 to 266, took the lives of 5, 000 daily in Rome.

He may well have died in the late 160s, as a result of the Antonine Plague that followed the Parthian War, though conclusive proof is lacking.

However, scholars believe that Verus may have been a victim of smallpox, as he died during a widespread epidemic known as the Antonine Plague.

The cause is unknown, but plague is considered a likely culprit, as it is known that between 165 and 190 the so-called Antonine Plague severely affected Western Europe.

The Antonine Plague, AD 165 – 180, also known as the Plague of Galen, who described it, was an ancient pandemic, either of smallpox or measles, brought back to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East.

Historian William McNeill asserts that the Antonine Plague and the later Plague of Cyprian ( 251 – ca. 270 ) were outbreaks of two different diseases, one of smallpox and one of measles, although not necessarily in that order.

* Bruun, Christer, " The Antonine Plague and the ' Third-Century Crisis '," in Olivier Hekster, Gerda de Kleijn, Danie + lle Slootjes ( ed.

Heavy mortality from 165 in the Antonine Plague seriously impaired attempts to repel Germanic invaders, but the borders of the Empire were generally held or at least speedily restored.

She survives epidemic disease ( the Antonine Plague ) and a Germanic invasion that is part of the Marcomannic Wars.

Proximate causes of the population decrease include the Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian, and the Crisis of the Third Century.

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Under instructions from the emperor, he undertook an invasion of southern Scotland, winning some significant victories, and constructing the Antonine Wall from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde, although it was soon abandoned for reasons that are still not quite clear.

In the reign of Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ) the Hadrianic border was briefly extended north to the Forth-Clyde isthmus, where the Antonine Wall was built around 142 following the military reoccupation of the Scottish lowlands by a new governor, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.

Within a year the Antonine Wall was recaptured, but by 163 or 164 it was abandoned.

The second occupation was probably connected with Antoninus ' undertakings to protect the Votadini or his pride in enlarging the empire, since the retreat to the Hadrianic frontier occurred not long after his death when a more objective strategic assessment of the benefits of the Antonine Wall could be made.

Soon after Hadrian's Wall was built, most of its men were moved north to the Antonine Wall.

The same emperor left his mark on the landscape of northern Britain when he built a wall to mark the limits of the empire, and after further conquests in Scotland, the Antonine wall was built to replace Hadrian's Wall.

Twice it was advanced to the line of the Antonine Wall, at about the time when Hadrian's Wall was built and again under Septimius Severus, and once further north, beyond the river Tay, during Agricola's campaigns – although each time it was soon withdrawn.

He indicates this time in the Apology which he addressed to Antonine, where he writes as follows: ' We do not think it out of place to mention here Antinoüs also, who lived in our day, and whom all were driven by fear to worship as a god, although they knew who he was and whence he came '.

A southern part of what is now Scotland was occupied by the Romans for about 20 years in the mid-2nd century AD, keeping in place the Picts to the north of the Antonine Wall.

The village was named in honor of the mid-19th-century folk hero Antonine Barada, who ran a trading post within the former Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation.

Edessa was re-occupied, Mannus re-installed .< ref > Birley, " Hadrian to the Antonines ", 163, citing Prosopographia Imperii Romani < sup > 2 </ sup > M 169 .</ ref > His coinage resumed, too: ' Ma ' nu the king ' ( Syriac: M ' NW MLK ') or Antonine dynasts on the obverse, and ' King Mannos, friend of Romans ' ( Greek: Basileus Mannos Philorōmaios ) on the reverse.

The route of the Strand on the southern boundary of what was to become Covent Garden was used during the Roman period as part of a route to Silchester, known as " Iter VII " on the Antonine Itinerary.

The Antonine Wall, a 60 km-long fortification in Scotland, was started by Emperor Antonius Pius in 142 AD as a defense against the " Barbarians " of the north.

Inscriptions found on artifacts recovered at Rough Castle Fort along the Antonine Wall across the Central Belt of Scotland indicate that in the 2nd century the fort was the base for 500 men of the Sixth Cohort of Nervii, an infantry unit.

The city was later called Nevirnum, as the name appears in the Antonine Itinerary.

Durnovaria was first recorded in the 4th century Antonine Itinerary and became a market centre for the surrounding countryside, and an important road junction and staging post, and eventually one of the twin capitals of the Celtic Durotriges tribe.

Around 140, a centurion from I Italica was responsible for the construction of a section of the Antonine Wall.

The Antonine Wall was named as an extension to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2007.

During the Roman era there was a settlement named Abona at the present Sea Mills ; this was important enough to feature in the 3rd century Antonine Itinerary which documents towns and distances in the Roman empire, and was connected to Bath by a road.

In 143 he oversaw the initial construction of the Antonine Wall ; he is explicitly named on building inscriptions from Balmuildy.

It is one of the four poleis ( cities ) attributed to the Dumnonii by Ptolemy in his Geography of the 2nd century, and is also named in the late-second century Antonine Itinerary where it appears as the southern terminus of Iter XV, on the Fosse Way.

Although by birth, Annia Aurelia Faustina was of the Claudia ( gens ), she was not named after her father ; instead she was named in honor of her parent ’ s relations to the gens Aurelia, the gens Annia and the Nerva – Antonine dynasty.

Fourteen years later, in 142, the Romans extended the Britannic frontier northwards, to the Forth-Clyde line, where they constructed the Antonine Wall, but, after approximately twenty years, they then retreated to the border of Hadrian's Wall.

The emperor Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ) is said by Pausanias to have defeated them after they began an unprovoked war against Roman allies, perhaps as part of the campaign that led to the building of the Antonine Wall ( 142-144 ).

Construction on Hadrian's Wall was started 42 years after completion of the Gask Ridge ( from 122 to 130 CE ), and the Antonine Wall was started just 12 years after completion of Hadrian's Wall ( from 142 to 144 CE ).

The origin of the case began in 1675 after the trial of Madame de Brinvilliers, who had conspired with her lover, army captain Godin de Sainte-Croix, to poison her father Antonine Dreux d ' Aubray in 1666 and two of her brothers, Antoine d ' Aubray and François d ' Aubray, in 1670, in order to inherit their estates.

During reigns of the Flavian and Antonine emperors, the ordinary consuls tended to resign after a period of four months, and the elections were moved to 12 January of the year in which they were to hold office.

It is very close to the town centre including the refurbished and extended shopping area, renamed the Antonine Centre, after the Antonine Wall a Roman antiquity.