The future Roman emperor Hadrian was born in Rome in the year 76 AD.He was born to Publius Aelius Hadrianus and Domita Paulina. Hadrian's father was a cousin of the emperor Trajan which put him in a possible position of becoming emperor because of the bloodline. Upon the death of his father in,86 AD, Hadrian became the ward of Trajan at the age of 10 years. Upon the ascension of Trajan as emperor, Hadrians career began to advance. In 96 AD Hadrian held his first public office as a tribune of Macedonia. Following his Tribuneship, Hadrian served in Trajan's Dacian wars between 101 AD and 106 AD. Also, Hadrian was made Quaestor by Trajan in 101 AD and later Quaestor in 106 AD. Hadrian was elected to his first consulship in 106 AD and later again in 118 AD.In 114 AD Hadrian was made governor of Syria where he became disliked due to the fact that he was accused of executing four senators which he denied by saying that the senate ordered the executions, not him.