1St Century

Events

• Beginning of Christianity
• Spread of the Roman Empire
• Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
• Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
• Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon
• Buddhism reaches China
• Tacitus mentions the Suiones, who will one day be called the Swedes.
• Kaundinya, a Indian Brahmin marries Soma and establishes the Pre-Angkor Cambodian Kingdom of Funan.
• Arena (colosseum) is constructed, origin of the name Arena

Significant persons

• Jesus
• Saint Paul of Tarsus
• Pliny the Elder
• Tiberius
• Tacitus
• Seneca
• Josephus
• Nero
• Titus
• Boudicca
• Arminius

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Codex, the first form of the modern book, appears in the Roman empire
• Year 78 - the beginning of the Saka Era South Asian calendar system.

Decades and years

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