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Events

The long Roman conquest of Britain begins. Aulus Plautius lands with four legions and an equal number of auxiliaries and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. He halts at the Thames and sends for the emperor Claudius, who leads the march on Camulodunum. Eleven British kings, probably including those of the Iceni and Brigantes, submit without a fight. Meanwhile, the future emperor Vespasian begins to subdue the south-west. The Romans begin to construct forts such as at Peterborough, and begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.

Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.

Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.
The warrior Trung Sisters commit suicide after their resistance is defeated at Nam Viet in Vietnam.
Vietnam is designated a province of China.

Togodumnus, King of the Catuvellauni
Julia, daughter of Drusus the Younger, granddaughter of Tiberius, niece of Claudius, executed (or perhaps forced to commit suicide) at the instigation of Messalina