AD 44

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Claudius returns from his British campaign in triumph, the southeast part of Britannia now held by the Roman Empire, but the war will rage for another decade and a half.
• Boudicca marries Prasutagus, king of the British Celtic tribe the Iceni.
• Mauretania becomes a Roman province.
• The Isle of Rhodes returns to the Roman Empire.
• Judaea is controlled by Roman governors.
• Cuspius Fadus, Roman governor of Judea, suppress the revolt of Theudas who is decapitated.

  Korea

• Minjung becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.

  By topic

Arts and Science

• Pomponius Mela writes De situ orbis, a geography of the Earth.

  Deaths

• Daemusin, Korean ruler of Goguryeo
• Herod Agrippa I, king of Judea
• James the Great, apostle of Jesus
• Wu Han, general of the Han Dynasty