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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
[edit | edit source]By place
[edit | edit source]South Asia
[edit | edit source]- The Kushan Empire is founded (approximate date).[citation needed]
Roman Empire
[edit | edit source]- 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.[1]
- Phaedrus translates Aesop's fables, and composes some of his own.[2]
- Velleius Paterculus writes the general history of the countries known in Antiquity.[citation needed]
By topic
[edit | edit source]Religion
[edit | edit source]- 7 April (Good Friday) – Jesus is crucified (according to one dating scheme). He is later reported alive by his disciples.
Births
[edit | edit source]- 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)[3]
- Quintus Petillius Cerialis, Roman general
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- April 7 – Jesus of Nazareth, (possible date of the crucifixion)[4][5][6] (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.[6][7]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Tiberius, pp. 53–54.
- ↑ "Phaedrus Biography - eNotes.com". eNotes. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
- ↑ Johnson, Marguerite (2012). Boudicca. A&C Black. p. 13. ISBN 9781853997327.
- ↑ Colin J. Humphreys and W. G. Waddington, "Dating the Crucifixion ," Nature 306 (December 22/29, 1983), pp. 743-46. [1]
- ↑ Colin Humphreys, The Mystery of the Last Supper (Cambridge: University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0-521-73200-0, p. 194
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Blinzler, J. Der Prozess Jesu, fourth edition, Regensburg, Pustet, 1969, pp. 101-126
- ↑ Colin Humphreys, The Mystery of the Last Supper (Cambridge: University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0-521-73200-0, pp. 14 & 62