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| 27 BC |
| | | Livy begins writing and publishing his History of Rome, a task which will occupy him for forty years | |
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| 23 BC |
| | | Sukune, according to tradition, wins the first sumo wrestling contest and becomes patron saint of the sport | |
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| 23 BC |
| | | The first three books of Horace's Odes are published, written on his Sabine farm | |
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| 20 BC |
| | | Herod the Great, king of Judaea, begins to build a spectacular new Temple for the Jews on the sacred mount in Jerusalem | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | | The excellence of the arts, particularly literature, during the reign of Augustus Caesar causes it to be remembered as a golden age of culture | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | | A collection of witty love poems, entitled Amores, brings Ovid an early success | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | | Augustus Caesar puts a team of surveyors to work mapping the empire's 50,000 miles of roads, a task which will take them twenty years | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | | Roman author Vitruvius writes De Architectura, now generally known as The Ten Books of Architecture | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | | The Netherlands, or 'low countries' around the Rhine delta, enter history as the Roman province of Germania Inferior | |
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| 19 BC |
| | | Virgil dies just after completing the Aeneid, and imperial command from Augustus Caesar prevents his executor from destroying the epic | |
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| c. 6 BC |
| | | According to the Gospel account, Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem two years before the death of Herod the Great - making the date 6 BC | |
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| 4 BC |
| | | Herod, according to the Gospel account, orders all newly born infants in Bethlehem to be killed | |
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| | | Christians decide (though not until AD 525) that this is the year of Christ's birth, making it AD 1 in the Christian chronology | |
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| c. 10 BC |
| | | The period of stability achieved during the reign of Augustus Caesar has been given the name Pax Romana ('Roman peace') | |
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| 4 |
| | | After the death of two of his grandsons, the emperor Augustus formally adopts his stepson Tiberius as his successor | |
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| 4 |
| | | Augustus Caesar insists on Tiberius adopting as his successor Germanicus, a talented young member of the imperial family | |
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| 5 |
| | | Germanicus, designated eventual heir to the throne, marries Agrippina, granddaughter of the ruling emperor | |
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| 9 |
| | | The defeat of three Roman legions in the Teutoberg Forest by Arminius, establishes the Rhine as a natural boundary of the Roman empire | |
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| 14 |
| | | The death of Augustus introduces half a century of chaos, as the members of his family compete ruthlessly for power | |
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| 14 |
| | | Tiberius succeeds his stepfather Augustus Caesar as the Roman emperor | |
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| 19 |
| | | Germanicus, nephew and heir of the emperor Tiberius, dies when far away with the army in Syria | |
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| c. 20 |
| | | Saul of Tarsus, later known as St Paul, has a Greek-speaking Jewish father who is a Roman citizen | |
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| c. 20 |
| | | The Romans construct the massive Pont du Gard to bring water to the city of Nîmes | |
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| 23 |
| | | The Han dynasty recovers control, after a 15-year interlude, and moves the capital to Loyang - starting the Eastern Han period | |
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| c. 29 |
| | | Jesus begins his ministry in Galilee, gathering disciples, preaching and healing | |
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| c. 31 |
| | | Jesus rides into Jerusalem with a crowd of followers, then attacks the traders in the courtyard of the Temple | |
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| c. 31 |
| | | Jesus, at the Last Supper, associates the bread and wine with his own body and blood, establishing the sacrament of the Eucharist | |
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| c. 31 |
| | | Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate who reluctantly sentences him to death for blasphemy | |
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| c. 31 |
| | | Jesus Christ is crucified, according to the accounts of his followers, outside the city wall of Jerusalem | |
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| c. 31 |
| | | Peter becomes the leader of the small community of Christians in Jerusalem | |
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| c. 35 |
| | | Stephen is stoned outside the city wall of Jerusalem - the first Christian martyr | |
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| c. 35 |
| | | On the road to Damascus, where he intends to persecute the Christians, Saul sees a blinding light | |
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| 37 |
| | | Within the tangled and tormented web of the Roman imperial family, Gaius Caesar - nicknamed Caligula - inherits the throne | |
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| c. 40 |
| | | The death of Cymbeline is a prelude to the renewed Roman invasion of Celtic Britain | |
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| 41 |
| | | Claudius, after the assassination of his nephew Caligula, is selected as emperor by the praetorian guards | |
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