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Years: 65 66 67 68 69 - 70 - 71 72 73 74 75

Decades: 40s 50s 60s - 70s - 80s 90s

Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century

Events

• Roman Empire
  • The building of the Colosseum starts (approximate date).
  • Frontinus is praetor of Rome.
  • Pliny the Elder served as procurator in Gallia Narbonensis.
  • Roman general and future Roman Emperor, Titus, destroys the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, leaving erect only the famous Western Wall. Rome stations troops in Jerusalem and abolishes the Jewish high priesthood and Sanhedrin. This becomes known as the Fall of Jerusalem, a conclusive event in the First Jewish-Roman War. Following this event, the Jewish religious leadership moves from Jerusalem to Jamnia (present day Yavne), and the destruction is mourned annually as the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av.
  • Judea becomes a province.
  • Neapolis (present day Nablus) is founded in Iudaea Province.
  • Roman legions V Alaudae and XV Primigenia are destroyed during the Batavian rebellion. Later, Potillius Cerealis puts down the Batavian rebellion of Civilis.
  • Legions I and IV Macedonica are disbanded, II Audiutrix is created.
  • Emperor Domitian, then an imperial prince, marries Domitia Longina
  • Romans make a punitive expedition against Garamantes - they are forced to have an official relationship with the Empire.
  • Annexation of the island of Samothrace by the Roman Empire under Vespasian.

• Asia
  • India sees the end of the Hellenistic dynasties.

• Africa
  • Expedition by the Roman Septimus Flaccus in the South of Egypt. He probably reaches Sudan.

• Religion
  • Avignon becomes the seat of a bishopric.

Births

Deaths

• Hero of Alexandria (approximate date).af:70

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