60
This article is about the year 60. For other uses, see 60 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 1st century BC · 1st century · 2nd century |
| Decades: | 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s |
| Years: | 57 · 58 · 59 · 60 · 61 · 62 · 63 |
| 60 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 60 LX |
| Ab urbe condita | 813 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4810 |
| Bengali calendar | −533 |
| Berber calendar | 1010 |
| Buddhist calendar | 604 |
| Burmese calendar | −578 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5568–5569 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2756 or 2696 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2757 or 2697 |
| Coptic calendar | −224 – −223 |
| Discordian calendar | 1226 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 52–53 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3820–3821 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 116–117 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3160–3161 |
| Holocene calendar | 10060 |
| Iranian calendar | 562 BP – 561 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 579 BH – 578 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 60 LX |
| Korean calendar | 2393 |
| Minguo calendar | 1852 before ROC 民前1852年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1408 |
| Seleucid era | 371/372 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 602–603 |
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The Roman Empire in 60
Year 60 (LX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lentulus (or, less frequently, year 813 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 60 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
The year 60 is the first identifiable year for which a date is cited complete with day of the week, i.e. 6 February 60, identified as a "Sunday" (as viii idus Februarius dies solis "eighth day before the ides of February, day of the Sun") in a Pompeiian graffito. According to the currently-used Julian calendar, 6 February 60 was a Wednesday (dies Mercurii, "day of Mercury"). This is explained by the existence of two conventions of naming days of the weeks based on the planetary hours system, 6 February was a "Sunday" based on the sunset naming convention, and a "Wednesday" based on the sunrise naming convention.[1]
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- The Roxolani are defeated on the Danube by the Romans.
- Emperor Nero sends an expedition to explore the historical city Meroë (Sudan).
- Vitellius is (possibly) proconsul of Africa.
- Agrippa II of the Herodians rules the northeast of Judea.
- The following events in Roman Britain (Britannia) take place in 60 or 61:
- Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman governor of Britain, captures the island of Mona (Anglesey), the last stronghold of the druids.[2][3]
- Prasutagus, king of the Iceni (in modern East Anglia), dies leaving a will which passes his kingdom to his two daughters and emperor Nero. The Roman army, however, annexes the kingdom as if conquered, depriving the nobles of their hereditary lands and plundering the land. The king's widow, Boudica, is flogged and forced to watch their daughters publicly raped.[4] Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, call in their loans.[5]
- Boudica leads a rebellion of the Iceni against Roman rule[6] in alliance with the Trinovantes, Cornovii, Durotriges and Celtic Britons. The Iceni and Trinovantes first destroy the Roman capital Camulodunum (Colchester), wipe out the infantry of the Legio IX Hispana (commanded by Quintus Petillius Cerialis) and go on to burn Londinium (London) (probably destroying London Bridge) and Verulamium (St Albans), in all cases massacring the inhabitants in the thousands.
- Paulinus defeats the rebels at the Battle of Watling Street using a flying wedge formation, imposes wide-ranging punishments on native Britons,[2] and the Romanization of Britain continues. Boudica either poisons herself[7] or falls sick and dies.[8]
By topic
Religion
- The First Epistle of Peter, if by Saint Peter, is probably written between this year and c. 64.
- Paul of Tarsus journeys to Rome, but is shipwrecked at Malta. He stays for three months and converts Publius, the first Bishop of Malta.
Art and science
- Hero of Alexandria writes Metrica, Mechanics, and Pneumatics.
- 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.
Births
- Buddhamitra, Buddhist Nun
Deaths
References
- ↑ Nerone Caesare Augusto Cosso Lentuol Cossil fil. Cos. VIII idus Febr(u)arius dies solis, luna XIIIIX nun(dinae) Cumis, V (idus Februarias) nun(dinae) Pompeis. Robert Hannah, "Time in Written Spaces", in: Peter Keegan, Gareth Sears, Ray Laurence (eds.), Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300, A&C Black, 2013, p. 89.
- 1 2 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 16–20. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 14.30.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 14.31.
- ↑ Cassius Dio, Roman History 62.2.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 47. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals.
- ↑ Cassius Dio, Roman History.
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