Trajan became ill in the deserts of Mesopotamia late in 116 and his health rapidly deteriorated. He tried to return o Rome but only made it to the province of Cilicia where he died of what is described as "edema". in the year 117.
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Trajan's column was constructed by order of the senate to commemorate Trajan's Dacian victories. An architect named Apollodorus of Damascus is credited with actually building it.
The bronze statue of St Peter was placed on Trajan's Column by Pope Sixtus V in 1587.
Trajan acutally began his rule as the Roman empire in a.d. 98-117 a.d. He died in 117 a.d his last year of rule. Trajan is also know as the kind-hearted soldier.
the emperor Trajan was a patrician. Although his family had been plebeian, the emperor Vespasian made his father a patrician.