Quiet field
142
The year was full. This aperture was quiet.
The surviving record for 142 is not blank. It does not, under the categories declared before this sweep, resemble a cluster of instruments, laws, or named firsts that would promote the year. Quiet is a description of the aperture, not of the century.
- Antoninus Pius in a relatively settled principate
- Hadrian’s successor year, not a founding
- Eastern Han continuing
The aperture
Quiet under the declared categories. Retained as a denominator year.
Regions checked
- Europe
- Middle East and North Africa
- East Asia
- South Asia
- Africa
- the Americas
- Central Asia
Included / excluded
41 | 42 | 43
Same century. Same research threshold. Matched frames. Neither pane brighter except that the middle year is the selected aperture.
141
Neighbor
141: ordinary Antonine administration in the surviving record.
142
Aperture
Quiet under the declared categories. Retained as a denominator year.
143
Neighbor
143: ordinary Antonine administration in the surviving record.