AD 33

Events

By date

• April 1 – According to one historian's account, Jesus of Nazareth's Last Supper takes place.
• April 3 - Jesus is crucified. He is later reported alive by his disciples.

  By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Tiberius founds a credit bank in Rome.
• A financial crisis hits Rome, due to poorly chosen fiscal policies. Land values plummet, and credit is increased. These actions lead to a lack of money, a crisis of confidence, and much land speculation. The primary victims are senators, knights and the wealthy. Many aristocratic families are ruined.

  China

• Although the usurpation of Wang Mang and the Chimei Rebellion are behind him, Emperor Guangwu now faces a new threat to the Han Dynasty: the Rebellion of Gongsun Shu in the Sichuan province. Gongsun's naval forces are unsuccessful against Han General Cen Peng, so Gongsun decides to fortify his position by blockading the entire Yangtze River with a large floating pontoon bridge, complete with floating fortified posts. He erects forts on both banks of the river for further missile fire and protects his barrier with a large boom. After Cen Peng is unable to break through, he constructs several "castle ships" with high ramparts and ramming vessels known as "colliding swoopers", which break through Gongsun's lines and allow Cen to quell his rebellion. Gongsun Shu is totally defeated three years later.

  Births

• Gaius Rubellius Plautus, son of Gaius Rubellius Blandus and Julia Livia

  Deaths

• April 3 - Jesus of Nazareth, The other possible dates supported by a number of scholars are April 7, AD 30 and April 6, AD 31.
• Agrippina the Elder, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, wife of Germanicus
• Drusus Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, adoptive son of Tiberius
• Gaius Asinius Gallus, widower of Vipsania Agrippina and alleged lover of Agrippina the elder
• Lucius Aelius Larnia, Roman consul, governor and praefectus urbi in Rome
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul and father-in-law of Drusus Caesar
• Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman jurist
• Munatia Plancina, wife of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso