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

• August 8 , Primus, patriarch of Alexandria
• Aulus Cornelius Palma, Roman politician
• Bassus of Lucera, Roman bishop and martyr
• Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, Roman politician
• Lucius Publilius Celsus, Roman politician
• Lusius Quietus, Roman general and governor
• Ren Shang, Chinese general of Han Dynasty
• Terentian, Roman bishop and martyr