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AD 59 (LIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Capito (or, less frequently, year 812 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 59 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.

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Roman Empire

  • Emperor Nero orders the murder of his mother Julia Augusta Agrippina. He tries to kill her through a planned shipwreck, but when she survives has her executed and frames it as a suicide.
  • Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia. He installs Tigranes VI, a Cappadocian prince, as ruler of Armenia. For the next four years, a cohort from Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis is stationed in the capital as bodyguard to the king, supported by fifteen hundred auxiliaries.
  • Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus retires from the Roman Senate.
  • Riot between the people of Pompeii and the people of Nuceria in Pompeii. Thousands are killed.

    • Arts and sciences

  • In the Satyricon, Petronius pokes fun at Roman immorality.

    • Religion

  • Paul the Apostle pleads his case and testifies of Christianity before King Agrippa II of the Herodians, who responds "You almost persuade me to be a Christian."

    • Deaths

  • Julia Augusta Agrippina, mother of Nero (killed by his order) (b. AD 15 or 16)
  • Domitius Afer, Roman orator

    • References

    AD 59 Wikipedia
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