AD 130

By place

Roman Empire

• A law is passed in Rome banning the execution of slaves without a trial.
• The Temple of Olympian Zeus is completed at Athens.
• Emperor Hadrian visits the cities Petra and Gerasa.
• A Triumphal Arch for Hadrian is built in Gerasa.
• Canopus, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, starts to be built.

  Asia

• Huviska becomes king of the Kushan Empire in India.
• The Scythian king Rudradaman I reconquers, from the Andhra, the lands annexed by Gautamiputra.

  By topic

Arts and sciences

• Claudius Ptolemaeus tabulates angles of refraction for several media.
• The Antinous Mondragone is sculpted.
• c. 130–138 - Hadrian Hunting Boar and Sacrificing to Apollo, sculptural reliefs on the Arch of Constantine, Rome, are made.
• c. 130–138 - Antinous, from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Italy, is made. It is now kept at Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Rome.