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Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)
Syria: 371/372 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Cornelius Lentulus Cossus is next to Emperor Nero ordinary consul of the Roman Empire. The latter will be replaced after six months of Gaius Velleius Paterculus as Suffektkonsul.
In the Roman province of Britannia begins under the leadership of Queen Boudicca of Boudicca revolt of the Celtic tribes of the Iceni and Trinovantes against the Roman occupation. The late Icenerfürst Prasutagus inherited his kingdom equally between his two daughters and the Roman Emperor Nero, to thereby ensure the survival of his kingdom and to protect his family from attacks by the Romans before all things. But the Romans draw under the leadership of the procurator Catus Decianus a country and treat the realm of the king's previous clientele from now on as a part of the Roman province. As Tacitus, Roman soldiers destroy Prasutagus ' lands and slaves of the Procurator his house, mistreat his widow Boudicca and raping and kidnapping their two daughters. Boudicca then pulls towards the end of the year together an army. In addition to the Icenern close her to the neighboring Trinovantes and other small parts, but of unknown tribes, see also suppressed by the Roman treatment. You decide to strike out together and to look for new settlement reasons, in which they can live independently by the Romans. The uprising lasted up to 61 years
Science and Technology
- The Roman poet Seneca wrote the Quaestiones naturales - the first and only known physical textbook of Roman literature.
Born
- NOV 7: Keiko, 12 Emperor of Japan († 130)
- Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus, Roman politician and military commander ( † about 118)
Died
- 60: Prasutagus, brit norman Icenierfürst