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Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)

Syria: 372/373 ( year in October )

Events

  • Publius Petronius Turpilianus is ordinary, together with Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus Consul of the Roman Empire. The latter is sent in the same year of Emperor Nero for the Protection of Armenia as Legatus to Cappadocia and replaced by Lucius Velleius Paterculus as Suffektkonsul.
  • The Romans beat down an uprising of the Iceni and Trinovantes During the Battle of Watling Street in Britain. The Britannic army leader Boudicca dies.

Born

  • 61: Pliny the Younger, a Roman writer and politician († 113 )

Died

  • 61: Boudicca, Britannic army leader
  • 61: Barnabas (Acts ), according to traditional lore, in Cyprus
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