Adoption-succession is a completed palace opacity
Dated 1 January 136: Adoption-succession is a completed palace opacity. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.
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Adoption politics. Medium confidence. Hadrian did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
Hadrian Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
Hadrian’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Conventional 76–138 CE, born Italica. Accession 117.
Why it matters
Adoption politics. Medium confidence.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Hadrian
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactAdoption-succession is a completed palace opacity
- strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
- strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 136 · verified
Adoption politics. Medium confidence.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.27 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.76)
Observed
0.48 score from 0 to 1 · 0.29 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.4 score from 0 to 1 to 0.48 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.62)
Observed
56.1 Score · 13.7 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: fell from 57 Score to 56.1 Score.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.5)
Observed
42.5 index score (0-100) · 7.53 below the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.LacusCurtius — Historia Augusta, HadrianUniversity of Chicago / LacusCurtius · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — HadrianEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Hadrian did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Driver institutional-corruption is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from Adoption-succession is a completed palace opacity at 0136-01-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Hadrian/1*.html (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hadrian (opens in a new tab).
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorHadrian
- contributed toFactAdoption-succession is a completed palace opacity
- strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
- strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Adoption-succession is a completed palace opacity. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/had-succession-opacity
https://factrail.ai/facts/had-succession-opacity
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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