AD 30

Template:Use mdy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Year nav Template:M1 year in topic AD 30 (XXX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 783 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 30 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

South Asia

• The Kushan Empire is founded (approximate date).Template:Citation needed

Roman Empire

• Agrippina the Elder (the wife of Germanicus) and two of her sons, Nero Julius Caesar and Drusus Caesar, are arrested and exiled on orders of Lucius Aelius Sejanus (the prefect of the Praetorian Guard), and later starved to death in suspicious circumstances. In Sejanus's purge of Agrippina the Elder and her family, her son Caligula, and her three daughters, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla are the only survivors.<ref>Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Tiberius, pp. 53–54.</ref>
• Phaedrus translates Aesop's fables, and composes some of his own.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Velleius Paterculus writes the general history of the countries known in Antiquity.Template:Citation needed

By topic

Religion

• 7 April (Good Friday) – Jesus is crucified (according to one dating scheme). He is later reported alive by his disciples.

Births

• November 8 – Nerva, Roman emperor (d. AD 98)
• Jia Kui, Chinese Confucian philosopher (d. AD 101)
• Mobon of Goguryeo, Korean king (d. AD 53)
• Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero (d. AD 65)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Quintus Petillius Cerialis, Roman general

Deaths

• April 7 – Jesus of Nazareth, (possible date of the crucifixion)<ref name="nature.com30">Colin J. Humphreys and W. G. Waddington, "Dating the Crucifixion ," Nature 306 (December 22/29, 1983), pp. 743-46. [1]</ref><ref name=Humphreys2011 >Colin Humphreys, The Mystery of the Last Supper Cambridge University Press 2011 Template:ISBN, page 194</ref><ref name="WPCleanerAuto1">Blinzler, J. Der Prozess Jesu, fourth edition, Regensburg, Pustet, 1969, pp101-126</ref> (born circa 4 BC) The other possible dates also supported by scholarly consensus among a survey of 100 published scholarly biblical statements are April 6, AD 31 and April 3, AD 33.<ref name="WPCleanerAuto1" /><ref name=Humphreys2011p14 >Colin Humphreys, The Mystery of the Last Supper Cambridge University Press 2011 Template:ISBN, pages 14 and 62</ref>