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The 59th (fifty-ninth) year in the Julian calendar is a non-leap year starting on Monday . This is the 59th year of our era , the 59th year of the 1st millennium , the 59th year of the 1st century , the 9th year of the 6th decade of the 1st century, the 10th year of the 50s .
Events
Andre Castaigne. The death of Agrippina
Roman Empire
- Emperor : Nero .
- Consuls : Guy Vipstan Aprronian and Guy Fontay Capiton .
- Consuls Suffixes : Titus Sextius African and Mark Ostorius Skapula .
- Emperor Nero orders to kill his mother Agrippina the Younger .
- Agricola Gnei Julius for the first time participated in a campaign in Britain .
- Guy Suetonius Paulin becomes Governor of Britain
- The solar eclipse [1] mentioned by Roman writers Pliny the Elder and Tacitus [2] . According to Pliny, an eclipse was observed on the day before the May calendars at the consulates of Vipstan and Fontey (April 30, 59), in Campania - between 7 and 8 hours of the day (counting the hours from dawn), and in Armenia , according to the report of the commander Corbulon , between 11 and 12 hours of the day, that is, before sunset [3] .
Hunnu :
- Shanuy of the Southern Huns Di (59–63)
China :
- Zhang Daolin received a high position, but gave up his career and returned to the mountains to study the science of longevity.
Died
Domitia Lepida Elder
- March 23 - Agrippina the Younger - Empress Consort of the Roman Empire (49-54), mother of Nero , was killed on his orders.
- - Agrippina 's maid and girlfriend, killed when mistaken for Agrippina
- Gnei Domitius Afr - Roman orator, consul-suffice of the Roman Empire for 39 years.
- Domitia Lepida the Elder , the aunt of Messalina and Nero , was poisoned by order of Nero.
- - Roman historian
- Han - Shanuy Hunnu (56-59)
See also
► 59 year
Notes
- ↑ Total solar eclipse on April 30, 59 N.E.
- ↑ Tacitus . Annals. XIV 12.
- ↑ Pliny the Elder . Natural history. II 72.