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The Roman Empire in 60

Year 60 (LX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Afer (or, less frequently, year 813 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 60 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Romans build the first London Bridge.
• Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, made a will and left his kingdom to his two daughters and emperor Nero.
• The Icenian chiefs are deprived of their hereditary estates, the Roman army annexed East Anglia.
• Boudica, widow of Prasutagus, is flogged and then forced to witness the public rape of her daughters.
• Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, governor of Britannia, leads a campaign on the island of Mona (Anglesey).
• Boudica joins the British Celtic tribes in revolt, along with the Cornovii, Durotriges and Trinovantes.
• The rebels defeat Legio IX Hispana and destroyed the capital Camulodunum (modern Colchester).
• Boudica sacks Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans). Thousands of civilians are killed.
• Nero send an expedition to explore the historical city Meroë (Sudan).
• The Rhoxolani are defeated on the Danube by the Romans.
• Vitellius is (possibly) proconsul of Africa.
• Herod Agrippa II rules the northeast of Judea.

By topic

Religion

• The First Epistle of Peter, if by Saint Peter, is probably written between this year and c. 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.
• 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.

Births

Deaths

• Domitius Afer, Roman orator

References