40s

The 40s decade ran from January 1, AD 40, to December 31, AD 49.

Not to be confused with 1840s, 1940s, or 2040s.
Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • AD 40
  • AD 41
  • AD 42
  • AD 43
  • AD 44
  • AD 45
  • AD 46
  • AD 47
  • AD 48
  • AD 49
Categories:
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
  • Disestablishments

Christianity came to Egypt as the Church of Alexandria was founded with Mark the Evangelist as the first Patriarch. James the Great died in 44 AD: One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, he was the first to be martyred according to the New Testament. Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome. (The exact date is uncertain. The maximal time window for the expulsion of Jews from Rome is from January AD 41 until January AD 53.)

Claudius became Roman Emperor in AD 41, following the assassination of Caligula. In AD 43, he sent Aulus Plautius with four legions to Britain (Britannia), initating the decades-long Roman conquest of Britain. In China, the Trung sisters' rebellion (AD 40-43), an armed civil uprising in the south of Han China, was crushed that same year.

Disasters of this decade include a famine in Syria in AD 46.

Literary works of this decade include the Histories of Alexander the Great (written by Quintus Curtius Rufus), and essays by Seneca (including De Ira, Ad Marciam, De consolatione, De Brevitate Vitæ, De Consolatione ad Polybium, and Ad Helviam matrem, De consolatione).

Events

By place
Roman Empire
  • Emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
  • Caligula starts on a campaign to conquer Britain, which fails miserably. He declares himself victorious regardless.
  • Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.
  • Caligula reforms the principatus into a Hellenistic Autocracy. He distributes honors carelessly, declares himself a god and orders that all the heads of the Greek deity statues be replaced by his. He also appoints his horse, Incitatus, a senator.
  • Approximate date of start of construction on the Pont du Gard aqueduct in Gallia Narbonensis.[1]
Europe
  • The Germanic Quadi tribe begin settling in present-day Moravia and Slovakia.
Parthia
  • Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia, opposed by his brother Gotarzes II.
Vietnam

By topic
Arts and sciences
  • Philo teaches that all men are born free.
Religion

By place
Roman Empire
China
  • Emperor Guang Wu of the Han Dynasty deposes his wife, Guo Shengtong, as empress, and makes his consort Yin Lihua empress in her place.[8]

By topic

By places
Roman Empire
  • Romans take control of Ceuta, a port city on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar.
  • The territories of the current Algeria and Morocco become a Roman province.
  • Dalmatian legate Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus revolts, but his troops defect, and his rebellion quickly withers.
  • Claudius begins construction of Portus, a harbour bearing a lighthouse on the right bank of the Tiber.
Korea
China
  • The Chinese General Ma Yuan represses the rebellions of the Trưng Sisters in Tonkin.

By topic
Religion

By place
Britain
  • Roman conquest of Britain:
    • May – Aulus Plautius, crossing (probably) from Boulogne (Bononia) in the Classis Britannica, lands with four Roman legions (20,000 men) and the same number of auxiliaries at Rutupiae (probably modern Richborough) on the east coast of Kent.[9] General (future emperor) Vespasian plays a major role in the defeat of the Britons led by the brothers Caratacus and Togodumnus (leaders of the Catuvellauni) in the 2-day Battle of the Medway[10] (probably at the river near Rochester) and the Romans drive them back to and across the River Thames; Togodumnus dies soon after.[9] Plautius halts at the Thames and sends for the Emperor.
    • September – Emperor Claudius, who arrives with reinforcements including war elephants,[10] leads the march on Camulodunum (modern Colchester). Eleven British kings, probably including those of the Iceni and Brigantes, submit without a fight.[9][11][12] Plautius becomes the first Governor of Roman Britain.[9]
    • Vespasian begins to subdue the south-west.
    • The Romans begin to construct forts, such as at Peterborough, and a road that later becomes Ermine Street.
    • The Romans capture a Brythonic settlement at Kent and rename it Durovernum Cantiacorum (modern Canterbury); and establish a Roman fort to guard the crossing of the Kentish River Stour.
    • Roman London (Londinium) is established on the Thames.[9]
Roman Empire
  • Julia Livia, daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar, is executed at the instigation of Claudius' wife Messalina.
  • Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.
  • The Romans now have complete control of the Mediterranean Sea.
Central Asia
  • Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.
Vietnam
  • The warrior Trung Sisters commit suicide after their resistance is defeated at Nam Viet.
  • Vietnam is designated a province of China.
Parthia
  • King Vardanes I of Parthia forces the city of Seleucia on the Tigris to surrender.

By topic
Religion
Arts and Science
  • Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri (approximate date).

By place
Roman Empire
Korea
  • Minjung becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.[14]

By topic
Arts and Science
  • Pomponius Mela writes De situ orbis, a geography of the Earth.

By place
Roman Empire
China
  • Chinese general Ma Yuan conducts an expedition against the Xiongnu and the Xianbei (in Manchuria).

By topic
Religion

By place
Roman Empire
  • The settlement at Celje gets municipal rights, and is named municipium Claudia Celeia.
  • Dobruja is annexed into Roman Moesia.
  • A census shows that there are more than 6,000,000 Roman citizens.
  • After the death of its king, Thracia becomes a Roman province.
  • Rome and its northeast border are reunited by the Danube Road.
  • According to Orosius, there is a serious famine in Syria[15]
Central Asia
  • A drought and an invasion of locusts hit the Mongolian steppes, causing a famine and a revolt at Xiongnu.

By place
Roman Empire
  • Claudius revives the censorship and ludi saeculares, and organises the order of the Haruspices, with 60 members.
  • Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is made commander of the Roman army in Germania Inferior. He conquers the Chauci and fights against the Cherusci and Frisians.
  • Cauci pirates led by the Roman deserter Gannascus ravage the Gallic coast; Corbulo uses the Rhine fleet against them. The Frisian revolt is suppressed.
  • Publius Ostorius Scapula replaces Aulus Plautius as governor of Britain. The south-east of the island is now a Roman province, while certain states on the south coast are ruled as a nominally independent client kingdom by Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, whose seat is probably at Fishbourne near Chichester. Ostorius immediately faces incursions from unconquered areas, which he puts down.
  • Corbulo orders the construction of the canal Fossa Corbulonis, between the Rhine and Meuse in the Netherlands, which connects the city Forum Hadriani (Voorburg).
  • Romans build the Traiectum fortification near the mouth of the Rhine, which will later grow to be the city of Utrecht.
  • Claudius founds the city Forum Claudii Vallensium (modern Martigny) in the Alpes Poeninae (Switzerland).

By topic
Religion
  • Ananias becomes high priest in Judaea.
  • Paul starts his evangelistic work (first missionary journey), accompanied by Barnabas and Mark.

By place
Roman Empire
  • Emperor Claudius invests Agrippa II with the office of superintendent of the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • After the execution of his wife Messalina, Claudius gets senatorial approval to marry his niece, Agrippina the Younger.
  • Publius Ostorius Scapula, governor of Britain, announces his intention to disarm all Britons south and east of the Trent and Severn. The Iceni, an independent, allied kingdom within that area, revolt but are defeated. Ostorius then moves against the Deceangli in north Wales, but is forced to abandon the campaign to deal with a revolt among the allied Brigantes.
  • Gallic nobles are admitted to the Roman Senate. Claudius grants the rights of citizenship to the Aedui.
China
Korea

By topic
Religion

By place
Roman Empire
  • Emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina the Younger (approximate date), and most of the real power falls to Agrippina.
  • Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor.[17]
  • Melankomas is the boxing champion, at the 207th Olympic Games.
  • Likely date for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome.
  • Nero becomes engaged to Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius.
  • Agrippina the Younger charges Octavia's first fiancé Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus with incest. He is brought before the Senate, and sentenced to death.
  • In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum (Colchester). Verulamium (St Albans) is probably established as a municipium the same year. A legion is stationed on the borders of the Silures of South Wales in preparation for invasion.

By topic
Religion

Significant people

Births

AD 40

AD 41

AD 42

AD 43

  • Martial, Roman poet (approximate date)

AD 45

  • Ban Zhao, first female Chinese historian (d. 116)
  • Domitilla the Younger, Roman noblewoman (d. AD 66)
  • Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus, Roman politician (d. 136)
  • Lucius Vipstanus Messalla, Roman orator (approximate date)
  • Plutarch, Greek historian and biographer (approximate date)
  • Publius Papinius Statius, Roman poet (approximate date)
  • Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, Roman politician

AD 46

AD 47

AD 48

Deaths

AD 40

  • Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the Younger (b. 17 BC)
  • Faustus Cornelius Sulla, Roman politician and suffect consul
  • Ptolemy of Mauretania, Roman client king (executed by Caligula)

AD 41

  • January 24
    • Caligula, Roman emperor (assassinated)[2] (b. 12 AD)
    • Julia Drusilla, daughter of Caligula (assassinated)[21] (b. 39 AD)
    • Milonia Caesonia, wife of Caligula (assassinated)[21] (b. 6 AD)
  • Asprenas Calpurnius Serranus, Roman politician
  • Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul (b. 17 BC)
  • Julia Livilla, daughter of Germanicus (starved to death)[22] (b. 18 AD)

AD 42

  • Arria, Roman noblewoman (committed suicide)
  • Aulus Caecina Paetus, Roman politician (committed suicide)
  • Gaius Appius Junius Silanus, Roman consul (executed)
  • Lucius Annius Vinicianus, Roman politician (committed suicide)
  • Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus, Roman politician (committed suicide)

AD 43

  • Aemilia Lepida, Roman noblewoman, fiancee of Claudius (b. 5 BC)
  • Appius Junius Silanus, Roman consul (executed)
  • Julia Livia, daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar (executed)
  • Togodumnus, king of the Catuvellauni
  • Trưng Sisters, Vietnamese military leaders (approximate date)

AD 44

AD 45

  • Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer (approximate date)
  • Vardanes I, king of the Parthian Empire (approximate date)

AD 46

  • Marcus Vinicius, Roman consul and governor (b. c. 5 BC)[24]
  • Rhoemetalces III, Roman client king of Thrace (murdered)
  • Servius Asinius Celer, Roman politician (executed)

AD 47

  • Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, Roman politician and consul
  • Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus, Roman consul
  • Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Roman nobleman
  • Quintus Sanquinius Maximus, Roman politician
  • Vardanes I, king of the Parthian Empire

AD 48

AD 49

  • Lollia Paulina, Roman noblewoman and empress (b. AD 15)
  • Ma Yuan, Chinese general of the Han Dynasty(b. 14 BC)[26]

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