Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina the Younger (approximate date).
• Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor.
• Melankomas is the boxing champion at the 207th Olympic Games.
• Likely date for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome.
• Nero becomes engaged to Octavia, daughter of Claudius.
• Agrippina the Younger charges Octavia's first fiancé Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus with incest. He is brought before the Senate and sentenced to death.
• In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum (Colchester). Verulamium (St Albans) is probably established as a municipium the same year. A legion is stationed on the borders of the Silures of South Wales in preparation for invasion.

By topic

Religion

• New Testament book Paul's Epistle to the Galatians is probably written.
• Christianity spreads into Europe, especially at Rome and at Philippi (probable date according to chronology derived from the Acts of the Apostles).

Births

Deaths

• Ma Yuan, Chinese general of the Han Dynasty (born 14 BC)