1st Century AD
- 5– Tiberius conquers Middle East
- 6– Judaea becomes a Roman province
- 6/9– Rebellions in Pannonia and Dalmatia suppressed by Germanicus
- 9– Three Roman legions are ambushed and massacred by the Germans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
- 11– Germania Inferior and the Rhine secured by Germanicus
- 14– Death of Augustus, Tiberius becomes emperor
- 14/15– Germanicus campaigns against the Germanic tribes
- 25– Caesar Germanicus adopts his nephew Castor as his heir
- 26– Tiberius retires to Capri, governing Rome by proxy
- 28– The tribe of the Frisii rebel because of taxes
- 30– The fall of Sejanus
- 33-36- Jesus of Nazareth ministers, is crucified.
- 37– Tiberius dies; Caligula becomes emperor
- 41– Caligula assassinated, Claudius becomes emperor
- 43– Claudius orders the Roman invasion of Britain
- 54– Claudius is allegedly poisoned by his wife Agrippinilla. Her son Nero becomes emperor
- 58/63– Nero orders war then peace with Parthia. Armenia is secured.
- 60/61– Boudica, queen of the Iceni, leads a rebellion in Britain.
- 64– Great Fire of Rome
- 66/74– First Jewish–Roman War
- 68– military coup leads to Nero's suicide– end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty; succeeded by Galba, Zealot Temple Siege in Jerusalem
- 69– Year of the Four Emperors: after the assassination of Galba, Otho and Vitellius briefly become emperors before Vespasian's accession to power in the end of the year; Flavian dynasty begins
- 69/70– Civilis leads the Batavian rebellion in Germania Inferior; defeated by Quintus Petillius Cerialis
- 71/84– Pacification of Britain, conquest of modern Wales and Scotland
- 79
- Titus becomes emperor
- August 24, An eruption of Vesuvius destroys much of Pompeii and Herculaneum
- 80– Rome partially destroyed by fire
- 81– Titus dies suddenly; his brother Domitian becomes emperor
- 85– King Decebalus of Dacia rebels and invades Moesia
- 89– Rebellions in Germania Inferior and Pannonia force peace with Decebalus of Dacia
- 96– Domitian assassinated– end of Flavian dynasty; succeeded by Nerva, the first of the Five good emperors
- 98– Trajan becomes emperor
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