Editing AD 59 (section)

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[March 23]] &ndash; Emperor [[Nero]] orders the murder of his mother [[Agrippina the Younger]]. He tries to kill her through a planned [[shipwreck]], but when she survives, he has her executed and frames it as a [[suicide]].  
* [[Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo]], [[Imperial Rome|Roman]] commander in the east, captures [[Tigranocerta]] in [[Mesopotamia]]. He installs [[Tigranes VI of Armenia|Tigranes VI]], a [[Cappadocia]]n prince, as ruler of [[Armenia]]. For the next four years, a [[cohort (military unit)|cohort]] from [[Legio VI Ferrata]] and [[Legio X Fretensis]] is stationed in the capital as bodyguard to the king, supported by fifteen hundred [[auxiliaries (Roman military)|auxiliaries]].  
* [[Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus]] retires from the [[Roman Senate]]. He openly shows his disgust at the behaviour of Nero regarding the murder of Agrippina.
* Rioting breaks out between the people of [[Pompeii]] and the people of [[Nocera Inferiore|Nuceria]] during a [[gladiator]] fight in Pompeii. Thousands are killed.