Editing AD 59

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[[File:Nero Agrippina aureus 54.png|upright=1.35|thumb|Coin of [[Nero]] and [[Agrippina the Younger]]]]
'''AD 59''' ('''[[Roman numerals|LIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the [[Consulship]] of [[Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus|Apronianus]] and [[Gaius Fonteius Capito (consul 59)|Capito]]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 812 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination AD 59 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 ====
* [[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.

=== By topic ===

==== Arts and sciences ====
* In the ''[[Satyricon]]'', [[Petronius]] pokes fun at Roman immorality.
* An [[List of solar eclipses in the 1st century|eclipse]] on 30 April over North Africa is recorded by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History.

==== Religion ====
*  [[Paul the Apostle]] pleads his case and testifies to his [[Christianity]] before King [[Agrippa II]] of the [[Herodians]], who responds "''You almost persuade me to be a Christian''."<ref>[[New Testament]], ''[[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]]'' 26.</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Agrippina the Younger]], mother of [[Nero]] (b. [[AD 15]])
* [[Domitia Lepida the Elder]], granddaughter of [[Mark Antony]]
* [[Domitius Afer|Gnaeus Domitius Afer]], Roman politician and [[orator]]
* [[Servilius Nonianus]], Roman consul and historian

== References ==
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