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AD 67 (LXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufus and Capito (or, less frequently, year 820 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 67 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

  • Vindex revolts, first in a series of revolts that lead to Nero's downfall.
  • Gaius Licinius Mucianus replaces Cestius Gallus as governor of Syria.
  • Judea (Roman province): Vespasian arrives in Ptolemais, along with Legio X Fretensis and Legio V Macedonica to put down the Jewish Revolt.
  • Vespasian is joined by his son Titus, who brings Legio XV Apollinaris from Alexandria. By late spring the Roman army numbers more than 60,000 soldiers, including auxiliaries and troops of king Agrippa II.
  • Jewish leaders at Jerusalem are divided through a power struggle, a brutal civil war erupts, the Zealots and the Sicarii execute anyone who tries to leave the city.
  • Siege of Jotapata and massacre of its 40,000 Jewish inhabitants. The historian Josephus, leader of the rebels in Galilee, is captured by the Romans. Vespasian is wounded in the foot by an arrow fired from the city wall.
  • Fall of the Jewish fortress of Gamla in the Golan to the Romans and massacre of its inhabitants.
  • Nero travels to Greece, where he participates in the Olympic Games and other festivals.
  • Sardinia becomes a Roman province.
  • Nero, jealous of the success of Corbulo in Armenia, orders that he be put to death. Corbulo literally "falls on his sword".

    • Religion

  • Possible martyrdom of apostles Peter and Paul in Rome.
  • Linus succeeds Peter as the second Bishop of Rome.

    • Births

  • Myeongnim Dap-bu, Goguryeo prime minister (d. 179)

    • Deaths

  • Cestius Gallus, defeated during the Jewish Revolt
  • Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman general, suicide ordered by Nero (b. c. AD 7)
  • Paul the Apostle, martyred (b. c. AD 5)

    • References

    AD 67 Wikipedia
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