21- Manufacture of pens and metal writing tools in Rome
22- Celtic customs in Gaul are replaced by Roman law.
23- Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.
24- Philo declares that the Old Testament is the eternal law of God.
25- Pomponius Mela formalizes the climatic zone system.
26- Pontius Pilate is appointed as Prefect of Judaea.
27- A poorly-built stadium in Fidenae collapses, killing 20,000 of the 50,000 spectators.
28- King Daru of Baekje succeeded the throne of Baekje in Korean peninsula.
29- John the Baptist was beheaded by King Herod Antipas
30- Phaedrus translates Aesop’s fables, and composes some of his own.
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11- Germania Inferior and the Rhine secured by Germanicus.
12- Ovid writes an epistle from his exile on the Black Sea
13- Strabo publishes his view on the shape of the Earth.
14- When famine hits in China, some citizens turn to cannibalism.
15- Nicholas of Demascus publishes a biography about Augustus, just one year after his death.
16- Ovid’s “Epistulae ex Ponto” appears.
17- An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis.
18- Arminius, German chiieftain, destroys the kingdom of the Macromanni.
19- Julius Caesar Germanicus died of poisoning.
20- Tiberias is built on the Sea of Galilee by Herod Antipas, in honor of Tiberius.
1 A.D. (henceforth all years shall be assumed to end in A.D. unless otherwise noted) Lions became extinct in Western Europe.
2- The first census was taken in China (57 million appx. recorded)
3- The rule of Augustus is renewed for ten more years in the Roman Empire
4- Nicholas of Demascus writes “History of the World”
5- Germania Inferior is conquered by Tiberius
6- A Roman fort is built, which lays the foundation for modern city Wiesbaden.
7- Illyrians revolt against Roman rule.
8- Paper is invented in China.
9- Law that is called the Lex Papia Poppaea is adopted in Rome, which prohibits celibacy and childless marriages, in order to increase the population.
10- Saint Peter is born.
