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The Jewish war begins with the capture of the Masada fortress by the Sicarians .
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Ethiopian calendar | 58/59 |
Buddhist calendar | 609/610 (southern Buddhism); 608/609 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 46th (47th) cycle , year of the fire tiger丙寅 ( at the beginning of the year wood buffalo 乙丑) |
Greek calendar | 1./2. Year of the 211th Olympiad |
Jewish calendar | 3826/27 (September 7/8) |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita DCCCXIX (819) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 376/377 (April turn of the year); Syria: 377/378 (New Year October) |
Spanish era | 104 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 122/123 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus will probably be consul of the Roman Empire for the second time .
In Judea there is an uprising against the Roman governor Gessius Florus . The Zealots take Jerusalem and the Sicarians occupy the fortress of Masada . Some influential rabbis - above all Jochanan ben Sakkai - try to prevent the threatening war, but speak for an increasingly smaller proportion of the population. Few districts were spared the unrest through diplomacy between local Jewish leaders and the Roman administration. The governor of Syria, Cestius Gallus , sends an army in autumn, but after initial successes at Beth Horon, it is crushed. This victory finally brings the warring party to power among the Jews.
Culture
- According to reports by the elder Pliny , the short-sighted Roman emperor Nero uses a cut emerald as an eye-glass during gladiator fights . It is the first such example.
religion
- The monastery of St. Thaddäus is founded by Judas Thaddäus in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran, 20 km south of Maku .
Died
- Titus Petronius , Roman writer (* around 14 )
- Publius Anteius Rufus , Roman politician
- around 66: Ananias ben Nedebaios , Hebrew high priest
- around 66: Antistia Politta , Roman patrician
- around 66: Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus , Roman politician
- at 66: Torpes , Christian martyr
- around 66: Evellius , Christian martyr