Editing AD 67 (section)

== Events ==

=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Gaius Julius Vindex]] revolts, first in a series of revolts that lead to [[Nero]]'s downfall.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brunt |first=P. A. |date=1959 |title=The Revolt of Vindex and the Fall of Nero |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41521388 |journal=Latomus |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=531–559 |issn=0023-8856}}</ref>
* [[Gaius Licinius Mucianus]] replaces [[Gaius Cestius Gallus (governor of Syria)|Gaius Cestius Gallus]] as governor of [[Syria]].
* [[First Jewish–Roman War]]: [[Vespasian]] arrives in [[Ptolemais in Phoenicia]] along with the [[Legio X Fretensis]] and [[Legio V Macedonica]], to put down the revolt.
* Vespasian is joined by his son [[Titus]], who brings [[Legio XV Apollinaris]] from [[Alexandria]]. By late spring the [[Roman army]] numbers more than 60,000 soldiers, including [[auxilia]] and troops of King [[Herod Agrippa II]]. 
* Jewish leaders at [[Jerusalem]] are divided through a power struggle, and a brutal civil war erupts. The [[Zealots]] and the [[Sicarii]] execute anyone who tries to leave the city.  
* [[Siege of Yodfat]]: Its 40,000 [[Jews|Jewish]] inhabitants are massacred. The historian [[Josephus]], leader of the rebels in [[Galilee]], is captured by the Romans. Vespasian is wounded in the foot by an arrow fired from the city wall. 
* The Jewish fortress of [[Gamla]] in the [[Golan]] falls to the Romans, and its inhabitants are massacred.
* Nero travels to [[Greece]], where he participates in the [[Olympic Games]] and other festivals.
* Nero, jealous of the success of [[Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo]] in [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenia]], orders that he be put to death. Corbulo literally "falls on his sword".

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* Apostles [[Saint Peter|Peter]] and [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]] are martyred in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] (possible date).
* [[Pope Linus|Linus]] succeeds [[Saint Peter|Peter]], as the second [[Bishop of Rome]].
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