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{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2011}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2016}} {{Year nav|59}} {{M1 year in topic}} [[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]] – 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]] – [[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 == {{Reflist}} [[als:50er#59]] {{DEFAULTSORT:59}} [[Category:59|0059]]
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