43

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Year '43' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Britain

Roman Empire

Asia

By topic

Religion

Arts and Sciences

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Britain

★ The long Roman conquest of Britain begins. Aulus Plautius lands with four legions and an equal number of auxiliaries and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. He halts at the Thames and sends for the emperor Claudius, who leads the march on Camulodunum. Eleven British kings, probably including those of the Iceni and Brigantes, submit without a fight. Meanwhile, the future emperor Vespasian begins to subdue the south-west. The Romans found the cities of London, then known as Londinium, and Peterborough, and begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.

Roman Empire

★ Consuls are the emperor Claudius (his second consulship) and Lucius Vitellius.

★ Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.

★ The Romans now have complete control of the Mediterranean.

Asia

★ Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.

★ The warrior Trung Sisters commit suicide after their resistance is defeated at Nam Viet in Vietnam.

★ Vietnam is designated a province of China.

By topic

Religion

★ In Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Coptic Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, thus establishing Christian Church in Africa.

Arts and Sciences

★ Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes ''De situ orbis libri'' (probable date).

Births

★ Martial, Roman poet.

Deaths

★ Togodumnus, King of the Catuvellauni.

★ Julia, daughter of Drusus the Younger, granddaughter of Tiberius, niece of Claudius, executed (or perhaps forced to commit suicide) at the instigation of Messalina.