10s

The 10s decade ran from January 1, AD 10, to December 31, AD 19.

Not to be confused with 1810s, 1910s, or 2010s.
Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • AD 10
  • AD 11
  • AD 12
  • AD 13
  • AD 14
  • AD 15
  • AD 16
  • AD 17
  • AD 18
  • AD 19
Categories:
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
  • Disestablishments

In Europe, the decade saw the end of the Early Imperial campaigns in Germania when Roman forces led by Germanicus defeated Germanic tribes in the Battle of Idistaviso in 16 AD. In the subsequent year, a war broke out between Maroboduus and Arminius. In Africa, Tacfarinas led his own Musulamii tribe and a loose and changing coalition of other Berber tribes in a war against the Romans in North Africa during the rule of the emperor Tiberius (AD 14–37). The Armenian Artaxiad dynasty was overthrown by the Romans. In China, the Red Eyebrows Rebellion erupted against Wang Mang, emperor of the Xin dynasty. In Korea, Daeso, the ruler of the kingdom of Dongbuyeo, led his armies into Goguryeo once again. This time, Muhyul, a prince of Goguryeo, led the armies of Goguryeo in a well-planned ambush and slaughtered all of Daeso's army. Only he and a few of his men escaped home.

Literary works from the 10s include works from the ancient Roman poet Ovid, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, while Nicolaus of Damascus wrote a biography of Emperor Augustus (Bios Kaisaros).

In the Roman Empire, an edict was issued effecting an empire-wide ban on divinatory practices especially astrology. The edict requires any consultation between a customer and a practitioner to be conducted with at least one third party witness present and bans inquiry into anyone's death. A large earthquake caused the destruction of at least twelve cities in the region of Lydia in the Roman province of Asia in Asia Minor.

Events

By place
Roman Empire
  • Differentiation of localized Teutonic tribes of the Irminones.
  • Senatus consultum Silanianum is adopted.
Central Asia
China
  • The usurper Wang Mang (who rules during a brief interregnum known as the Xin Dynasty) outlaws the private purchase and use of crossbows. Despite this, Liu Xiu, the later Emperor Guangwu of Han, buys crossbows in the winter of AD 22 to aid the rebellion of his brother Liu Yan (styled Bosheng) and Li Tong.
Judea

By topic
Arts
  • Ovid completes Tristia III (the "Sorrows") describing the sadness of banishment.

By place
Roman Empire
  • Germania Inferior and the Rhine are secured by Germanicus.
  • Emperor Augustus abandons his plan to create a defensive border at the Elbe, in order to reinforce the Roman defenses along the Rhine and the Danube.
  • An edict is issued effecting an empire-wide ban on divinatory practices, especially astrology. The edict requires any consultation between a customer and a practitioner to be conducted with at least one third party witness present, and bans inquiry into anyone's death.[1]
Persia
  • Artabanus II becomes ruler of Parthia.
India
  • Satakarni begins his reign as Emperor of the Andhra Empire (AD 11–29).

By place
Roman Empire

By topic
Arts and sciences
  • Ovid stops writing Fasti because of the lack of resources (being far from the libraries of Rome). He completes 6 books that detail festivals found in the Roman Calendar.

By place
Roman Empire
  • Emperor Augustus initiates his third census of the Roman Empire after 20 years.[2]
  • Abgarus of Edessa is reinstalled as king of Osroene.
  • The Senate passes a senatus consultum restricting the reduced Vigintisexviri to the Ordo Equester.
China
  • Last year (3rd) of Shijianguo era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty.
  • Considered the lucky number of those from the Chinese Xin Dynasty.

By topic
Arts and sciences
  • Strabo publishes his book on the shape of the Earth.
  • Ovid publishes books 1-3 of his Epistulae ex Ponto.[3]

By place
Roman Empire
  • Augustus' third (and final) 20-year census of the Roman Empire reports a total of 4,973,000 citizens.[4]
  • August 19 – Augustus, the first Roman emperor, dies and is declared to be a god.
  • September 18 – Tiberius succeeds his stepfather Augustus as Roman emperor.
  • Legions on the Rhine mutiny after the death of Augustus;[5] Germanicus restores discipline amongst the legions.
  • Germanicus is appointed commander of the forces in Germany, beginning a campaign that will end in 16.[6]
  • Germanicus leads a brutal raid against the Marsi, a German tribe on the upper Ruhr river, who are massacred.[7]
  • The town and port of Nauportus are plundered by a mutinous Roman legion that was sent there to build roads and bridges.[8]
  • Sextus Appuleius and Sextus Pompeius serve as Roman consuls.
China
  • First year of tianfeng era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty.
  • Famine hits China; some citizens turn to cannibalism.

By topic
Art

By place
Roman Empire
  • Early (approx.) – Emona (on the site of modern-day Ljubljana) is founded by Legio XV Apollinaris.[9]
  • May – As part of his campaign against the Germanic peoples, Germanicus captures Thusnelda, wife of Arminius.[10]
  • Summer – Germanicus launches a two-pronged attack from Vetera and Moguntiacum. On his return journey, he recaptures the aquila of Legio XIX and visits the battlefield of the Teutoburg Forest. Germanicus arranges the burial for the remains of Varus' army.[11]
  • Varna (Odessus), on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, is annexed to the Roman province of Moesia.
  • In Rome, the election of magistrates passes from the people to the Emperor and the Senate.
  • The river Tiber floods parts of Rome.[12]

By topic
Arts and sciences
  • Nicolaus of Damascus writes a biography of the Emperor Augustus (Bios Kaisaros).

By place
Roman Empire
  • A Roman army of 50,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a great victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius, and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions.[13]
  • Germanicus employs the North Sea fleet to avoid dangerous rivers, embarking an army in the Rhine Delta, aboard circa 1,000 ships. He defeats the Germans at the Amisius river estuary and the Weser, but during its return, the Roman fleet is partially destroyed by storms.[14]
  • Vonones, the beleaguered king of Armenia, is summoned to Syria, by Roman governor Creticus Silanus.[15]

By topic
Arts and sciences
  • Ovid's "Epistulae ex Ponto" appears.

By place
Roman Empire
Europe
  • A civil war begins in Germania.
  • Maroboduus, King of the Marcomanni, is defeated by Arminius and his Germanic tribes.
Africa
Judea
Asia Minor
  • An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis and damages several other cities.[18]

By place
Roman Empire
  • A vexillatio (sub-unit or detachment) of Legio III Augusta is destroyed by an ambush in Africa.
Syria
  • Winter – Germanicus Caesar arrives in Syria, as new commander-in-chief for the Roman East.
  • Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, governor of Syria, ignores the order of Germanicus to send Syrian-based legions, including Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis, to Armenia to back him in his planned coronation of Artaxias III.
Parthia
  • Germanicus concludes a peace treaty with Artabanus II of Parthia, in which he is recognized as king and friend of Rome.
China
  • After a flooding of the Yellow River in China, farmers are forced to rebel. Emperor Wang Mang reacts by sending an army (some 100,000 men) against the agrarian rebels. The rebel leaders, concerned that during battle it will become impossible to tell friend from foe, order that their men color their eyebrows red – and this is where the name Chimei ("The Red Eyebrows") comes from.
Korea
  • Daemusin becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.[19]
India

By place
Roman Empire
  • Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is deposed by Catualda. This ends the threat to the Romans from Germanic tribes until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Rome places them under its protection.
  • Germanicus Julius Caesar, commander in chief of the Roman legions in the East and beloved by the legionaries, falls ill and dies. On his deathbed he accuses Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.
  • Emperor Tiberius expels the Egyptians from Rome, and deports 4,000 Jews from Sicily.
  • Agrippina the Elder accuses Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso of having assassinated her husband Germanicus Julius Caesar in Antioch. However, there is no credible evidence and the charge is never proven. (In ancient times, when medical science was not advanced, poison was usually suspected whenever a young, healthy person died suddenly. There was no way to pinpoint and trace the substance after death; therefore, it was considered a quick, easy and non-traceable form of homicide.)
  • A triumphal arch is built for Germanicus Julius Caesar in Saintes.
Parthia
  • King Vonones I is removed to Cilicia and kept under house arrest. He escapes, but is caught and killed by a retired Roman legion veteran.
Asia
  • Last year (6th) of Tianfeng era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty.
  • First flying machine, according to the Hanshu.
  • Gondophares becomes king of the Saces.

Significant people

Births

AD 10

  • Hero of Alexandria, Greek engineer (d. c. AD 70)
  • Pope Linus, Pope in Catholic church (d. AD 76)
  • Liu Penzi, Chinese puppet emperor (d. after AD 27)
  • Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola, Roman consul (d. after AD 59)
  • Tigellinus, Roman Praetorian prefect (d. AD 69)

AD 12

AD 13

  • Casperius Aelianus, Roman praetorian prefect (d. AD 98)
  • Gaius Silius, Roman politician (d. AD 48)

AD 14

  • Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Roman banker (d. AD 62)
  • Marcus Junius Silanus, Roman consul (d. AD 54)

AD 15

AD 16

  • September 16 – Julia Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. AD 38)
  • Claudius Drusus, son of Claudius and Plautia Urgulanilla (approximate date)
  • Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus, Roman consul (d. AD 64)

AD 18

  • Julia Livilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (approximate date) (d. AD 41)

AD 19

Deaths

AD 10

  • Didymus Chalcenterus, Greek scholar and grammarian (b. c. 63 BC)

AD 11

  • Marcus Antistius Labeo, prominent Roman jurist

AD 12

  • Rhoemetalces I - king of the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace from 12 BC to 12 AD

AD 13

  • Quintus Pedius, Roman (deaf) painter (approximate date)
  • Wang Zhengjun, Chinese empress (b. 71 BC)

AD 14

  • August 19 – Augustus, Roman emperor (b. 63 BC)[22]
  • August 20 – Agrippa Postumus, Augustus (b. 12 BC)
  • Gnaeus Pompeius (Rufus), Roman consul
  • Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus[23] (b. 39 BC)
  • Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Roman consul
  • Parthenius of Nicaea, Greek grammarian
  • Paullus Fabius Maximus, Roman consul
  • Sempronius Gracchus, Roman nobleman

AD 15

AD 16

  • September 13 – Marcus Scribonius Libo, Roman senator (forced to commit suicide)
  • Clemens, Roman slave and impostor (executed by Tiberius) [24]
  • Scribonia, second wife of Caesar Augustus (approximate date)

AD 17

  • Antiochus III, King of Commagene
  • Archelaus, king of Cappadocia[25]
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman Latin writer
  • Livy, Roman historian (approximate date)
  • Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, Roman senator
  • Ovid, Roman poet (or AD 18)

AD 18

  • Crinagoras, Greek epigrammatist (b. 70 BC)
  • Herod Archelaus, Jewish ruler (ethnarch) (b. 23 BC)
  • Mother Lü, rebel leader against the Xin dynasty
  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet (or AD 17)
  • Yang Xiong, Chinese philosopher (b. 53 BC)
  • Yuri, Korean ruler of Goguryeo[19]

AD 19

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  2. "LacusCurtius • Res Gestae Divi Augusti (II)". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  3. Ronald Syme, History in Ovid (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 40-42
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  5. Tacitus; The Annals 1.31
  6. Tacitus, The Annals 1.49
  7. Tacitus, The Annals 1.51
  8. Tacitus, The Annals 1.20
  9. According to Balduin Saria in 1938; not supported by later archaeological findings. Šašel Kos, Marjeta (September 2012). "2000 let Emone? Kaj bomo praznovali?" [2000 Years of Emona? What Will We Celebrate?] (PDF). Ljubljana: glasilo Mestne občine Ljubljana [Ljubljana: The Bulletin of the City Municipality of Ljubljana] (in Slovenian). XVII (7): 28–29. ISSN 1318-797X. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2013. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
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  11. Tacitus, The Annals 1.62
  12. Tacitus, The Annals 1.76.
  13. Tacitus, The Annals 2.21
  14. Tacitus, The Annals 2.24
  15. Tacitus, The Annals 2.4
  16. Tacitus, The Annals 2.41
  17. Tacitus, The Annals 2.52
  18. Tacitus, The Annals 2.47
  19. "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
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  21. Wolf, Thomas (2019). The Nightingale's Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz. Pegasus Books. p. 440. ISBN 978-1-64313-162-7.
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  24. Tacitus, The Annals 2.40
  25. Tacitus, The Annals 2.42
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