Editing AD 125 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* The [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] is constructed (in [[Rome]]) as it stands today, by [[Hadrian]].
* [[Hadrian's Villa]], [[Tivoli, Italy]], starts to be built (approximate date).

==== Africa ====
* [[Plague (disease)|Plague]] sweeps [[North Africa]] in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of [[farm|cropland]]. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in [[Numidia]] and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to [[Italy]], where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned. (or was it around 125 BC<ref>[https://www.google.rs/books/edition/Locust_Outbreaks/JfrJEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=numidia%20locusts&pg=PT158&printsec=frontcover Locust Outbreaks Management and the World Economy 2023, p. 158]</ref>)

==== Asia ====
* Last (4th) year of the ''Yanguang'' era of the Chinese [[Han dynasty]].
* Change of emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty from [[Han Andi]] to [[Marquis of Beixiang of Han China|Marquis of Beixiang]], then to [[Han Shundi]].
* [[Gautamiputra Satakarni]], a king of the [[Andhra Pradesh|Andhra]] dynasty, conquers the Konkan near [[Bombay]]. He then controls central [[India]] from coast to coast.
* [[Zhang Heng]] of Han dynasty China invents a [[hydraulic]]-powered [[armillary sphere]].

=== By topic ===

==== Arts and sciences ====
* The [[Satire X|Satires of Juvenal]] intimate that [[bread and circuses]] (''panem et circenses'') keep the Roman people happy.

==== Religion ====
* [[Pope Telesphorus]] succeeds [[Pope Sixtus I]] as the eighth [[pope]] according to Roman Catholic tradition.
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