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Revision as of 05:15, 8 January 2005 by Jiang (talk | contribs) (→Deaths)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century
Decades: 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s 10s - 20s - 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s
Years: 18 19 20 21 22 - 23 - 24 25 26 27 28
Events
- 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.
- Liu Xuan, a descendant of the Han Dynasty royal family and leader of insurgents against the Xin Dynasty, proclaims himself emperor against Wang Mang.
- Tiberius lost his son Julius Caesar Drusus, and from then on seems to have lost interest in the Empire and occupied himself with pleasure.
- Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate, after the death of Drusus Julius Caesar.
- Gaius Asinius Pollio, Gaius Antistius Vetus become consuls
Births
- Pliny the Elder, Roman scientist and writer
Deaths
- Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius, poisoned
- October 6 - Wang Mang, "usurper" of the throne of the Han Dynasty and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty