131

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century
Decades:	100s  110s  120s  – 130s –  140s  150s  160s
Years:	128 129 130 – 131 – 132 133 134

131 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

131 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	131 CXXXI
Ab urbe condita	884
Assyrian calendar	4881
Bengali calendar	−462
Berber calendar	1081
Buddhist calendar	675
Burmese calendar	−507
Byzantine calendar	5639–5640
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2827 or 2767     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2828 or 2768
Coptic calendar	−153 – −152
Discordian calendar	1297
Ethiopian calendar	123–124
Hebrew calendar	3891–3892
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	187–188
- Shaka Samvat	53–54
- Kali Yuga	3232–3233
Holocene calendar	10131
Iranian calendar	491 BP – 490 BP
Islamic calendar	506 BH – 505 BH
Julian calendar	131 CXXXI
Korean calendar	2464
Minguo calendar	1781 before ROC 民前1781年
Seleucid era	442/443 AG
Thai solar calendar	673–674

Year 131 (CXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laenas and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 884 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 131 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Hadrian builds the city Aelia Capitolina on the location of Jerusalem.
• The Praetor's Edict is definitively codified by Salvius Julianus on Hadrian's orders. This change means that senatorial decrees become a mere confirmation of the imperial speech (oratio principis) which initiated them.
• Reorganization of the Imperial Council: Central administration is reinforced, and administrative positions are entrusted to Knights according to a very strict hierarchy. Under the reorganization, the Roman Senate is excluded from controlling the business of state.
• Hadrian restores the monarchist policy of Claudius and Domitian. The equestrian order is given full legal status and attains the second order of the state.
• Italy is divided into legal districts managed by consuls, a direct blow to the power and prestige of the Senate.

By topic

Religion

• Edict of Hadrian prohibiting the practice of circumcision. Additionally, Hadrian prohibits public reading of the Torah under penalty of death, as well as observance of festivals and the Sabbath, the teaching of Judaic Law, and the ordination of rabbis.
• The Temple of Baalshamin is built in Palmyra.^[1]

References

1. Javier Teixidor (2015). The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East. Princeton University Press. p. 132. ISBN 1400871395.