AD 49

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina the Younger and most of the real power fell to Agrippina.
• Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor.
• Melankomas is the boxing champion at the 207th Olympic Games.
• Likely date for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome.
• Nero becomes engaged to Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius.
• Agrippina the Younger charges Octavia's first fiancé Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus with incest. He is brought before the Senate and sentenced to death.
• In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum. Verulamium is probably established as a municipium the same year. A legion is stationed on the borders of the Silures of South Wales in preparation for invasion.

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Religion

• Apostle Paul begins his second missionary journey.
• New Testament book Paul's Epistle to the Galatians is probably written.
• Christianity spreads into Europe, especially at Rome and at Philippi.