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Events

By place

Roman Empire
Asia
  • India sees the end of the Hellenistic dynasties.
  • A flood in the yellow river returns the river north of Shandong, to essentially its present course[10]
Africa
  • Expedition by the Roman Septimius Flaccus to southern Egypt. He probably reaches Sudan.
  • Ze-Hakèlé (Zoskales in Greek) becomes king of Aksum.

By topic

Religion

By place

Roman Empire
Asia

By topic

Religion

By place

Roman Empire

By place

Roman Empire
Asia

By topic

Arts and sciences

By place

Roman Empire
Asia
  • The Chinese reestablish a protectorate of the Western Regions.
  • Chinese generals Dou Gu (Teou Kou) and Geng Bing (Keng Ping) take control of Turpan.

By topic

Arts and Science

By place

Roman Empire
Asia

By place

Roman Empire
China
  • First year of Jianchu era of the Chinese Han dynasty. (Clarification needed as to the meaning of this)

By topic

Art and Science
  • Chinese historian Ban Gu develops a theory of the origins of the universe.
Religion

By place

Roman Empire
Asia

By topic

Arts and sciences

By place

Roman Empire
Asia

By topic

Philosophy
  • The Chinese philosopher Wang Chong (Wang-Ch'ung) claims all phenomena have material causes.

By place

Roman Empire
China
  • A commission of scholars canonizes the text of works of Confucius and his school.

Significant people

Births

AD 70

AD 71

AD 72

AD 73

AD 74

AD 75

AD 76

AD 78

AD 79

Deaths

AD 70

AD 71

AD 72

AD 74

AD 75

AD 76

AD 77

AD 78

AD 79

References

  1. ^ War of the Jews Book V, sect. 99 (Ch. 3, paragraph 1 in Whiston's translation)
  2. ^ War of the Jews Book V, sect. 302 (Ch. 7, par. 2)
  3. ^ War of the Jews Book V, sect. 466 (Ch. 11, par. 4)
  4. ^ a b War of the Jews Book VI, sect. 296 (Ch. 5, par. 3). In Greek, "φάσμα τι δαιμόνιον ὤφθη μεῖζον πίστεως", a phrase that is often translated on UFO sites as "On the 21st of May a demonic phantom of incredible size...".
  5. ^ War of the Jews Book VI, sect. 94 (Ch. 2, par. 1)
  6. ^ War of the Jews Book VI, sect. 166 (Ch. 2, par. 9)
  7. ^ War of the Jews Book VI, sect. 220 (Ch. 4, par. 1)
  8. ^ a b c Chilver, Guy Edward Farquhar (January 20, 2024). "Vespasian". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
  9. ^ War of the Jews Book VI, sect. 407 (Ch. 8, par. 5; Ch. 9, par. 2)
  10. ^ Tregear, T. R. (1965) A Geography of China, pp. 218–219.
  11. ^ Ring, Trudy; Watson, Noelle; Schellinger, Paul (28 October 2013). Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 813. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
  12. ^ "Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Commagene". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  13. ^ Morgan, Gwyn (2006). 69 A.D : the year of four emperors. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 170–173. ISBN 1-4237-4559-0. OCLC 62868545.
  14. ^ a b "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  15. ^ "Gnaeus Julius Agricola".
  16. ^ a b "Pompeii: Vesuvius eruption may have been later than thought". BBC News. 2018-10-16. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  17. ^ LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001). A History of Rome (Second ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. p. 278. ISBN 0-631-21858-0.
  18. ^ Dow, Joseph A. (2011). Ancient Coins Through the Bible. Tate Publishing. p. 133. ISBN 9781617771354.