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Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
• Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain, and fails miserably.
• Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.
• Caligula transforms the principate into a Hellenistic Autocracy. He distributes honors carelessly, declares himself a god and orders that all the heads of the Greek statues be replaced by his. Lastly, he makes his horse a senator.

Europe

• German tribe Quadi begin settling in today Moravia and Slovakia.

Asia

• Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia, opposed by his brother Gotarzes II
• The Vietnamese Trung sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guangwu of Han

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Philo teaches that all men are born free.

Religion

• Christianity comes to Egypt as a church is founded in Alexandria. Mark the Evangelist founds the Coptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.
• Early Christian church erected at Corinth (most probable date).
• The Jewish festival of Pesach is adopted by the Christians and renamed Easter.

Births

• Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
• Frontinus, Roman general and military author
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
• July 13 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain
• Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina.
• Empress Ma of the Han Dynasty

Deaths

• January - Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy).
• Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)
• Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher

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