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| Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century | |
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Events
- Roman Empire
- 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.
- 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).
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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.
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Deaths
- January - Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy).
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)af:40
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