AD 60

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Roxolani are defeated on the Danube by the Romans.
• Emperor Nero sends an expedition to explore the historical city Meroë.
• Vitellius is proconsul of Africa.
• Agrippa II of the Herodians rules the northeast of Judea.
• The following events in Roman Britain take place in AD 60 or 61:
• * Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman governor of Britain, captures the island of Mona, the last stronghold of the Druids.
• * Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, dies leaving a will which passes his kingdom to his two daughters and the Roman Empire. The Roman army, however, annexes the kingdom as if conquered, depriving the nobles of their hereditary lands and plundering the land. The king's widow, Boudica, is flogged and forced to watch their daughters publicly raped. Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, call in their loans.
• * Boudica leads a rebellion of the Iceni against Roman rule in alliance with the Trinovantes, Cornovii, Durotriges and Celtic Britons. The Iceni and Trinovantes first destroy the Roman capital Camulodunum, wipe out the infantry of the Legio IX Hispana and go on to burn Londinium and Verulamium, in all cases massacring the inhabitants in their thousands.
• * Paulinus defeats the rebels at the Battle of Watling Street using a flying wedge formation, imposes wide-ranging punishments on native Britons, and the Romanization of Britain continues. Boudica either poisons herself or falls sick and dies.

  By topic

Religion

• The First Epistle of Peter, if by Peter, is probably written between this year and c. AD 64.
• Paul of Tarsus journeys to Rome, but is shipwrecked at Malta. He stays for three months and converts Publius, the first bishop of Malta.

  Art and science

• Hero of Alexandria writes Metrica, Mechanics, and Pneumatics.
• AD 60–79 - House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.

  Births

• Buddhamitra, Indian Buddhist nun
• Marcus Vitorius Marcellus, Roman politician
• Nicomachus, Greek mathematician

  Deaths

• Abdagases I, king of the Parthian Empire
• Boudica, British queen of the Iceni tribe
• Peter of Rates, first bishop of Braga