54 year

Roman Empire

• Emperor : Claudius (until October 13 ), then Nero .
• Consuls : Manius Atzilius Aviola and Mark Asinius Marcellus .
• Consul Suffect : Mark Efulan .
• The Praetorians and Praetorian Prefect Sextus Athranius Burr proclaimed Emperor Nero , the son of Gnei, Domitius Agenobarb and Agrippina the Younger.
• Nero appointed Domitius Corbulon as proconsul of the eastern provinces.
• A bright large comet appeared over Rome .
• Onisimus became bishop of Constantinople.
• The foundation was laid for the eradication of the cult of the Druids in Britain ; according to Suetonius, by this year the Druids were destroyed in Gaul .
• The next unrest in Judea began .
• King of Parthia Vologuez I made his brother Tiridat king of Armenia .
• According to legend, the Apostle Thomas began the preaching of Christianity in India .

See also: Category: Born in 54

See also: Category: Deaths in 54

• October 13 - Claudius - Roman emperor , poisoned by his last wife Agrippina .
• Aziz of Ames - king of Emesa (42-54)
• - Chinese historian
• Domitia Lepida the Younger , the mother of Messalina , executed by slander of Agrippina.
• Karatak is a captive leader of the British catuwellowns (according to other sources - silurov ); died in rome
• is a physician of the emperor Claudius , suspected of complicity in the murder of Claudius.
• Mark Junius Silan - consul of the Roman Empire, 46 years old, poisoned by order of Agrippina
• Pavel Fabius Peach - Roman politician, consul of the Roman Empire 34 years (date of death approximate)
• Stakhiy , an apostle of seventy , the bishop of Byzantium, died in Constantinople .
• - Roman freedman, confidant of the emperor Claudius , a key figure in the elimination of Messalina , was killed by order of Agrippina