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Year '''131''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CXXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] 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 ==
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=== 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 ====
* The Edict of Hadrian prohibits the practice of [[circumcision]]. Additionally, Hadrian prohibits public reading of the [[Torah]] under penalty of death, as well as observance of festivals and the [[Shabbat|Sabbath]], the teaching of Judaic Law, and the ordination of [[rabbis]].
* The [[Temple of Baalshamin]] is built in [[Palmyra]].<ref>{{cite book | author=Javier Teixidor| title =The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East| publisher =Princeton University Press| year =2015| page =132| isbn =978-1400871391}}</ref>
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== Births ==
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== Deaths ==
* [[Joshua ben Hananiah]], leading Jewish [[Tannaim|tanna]]

== References ==
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