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The aqueducts Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus are inaugurated.
52 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	44/45
Buddhist calendar	595/596 (southern Buddhism); 594/595 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	45th (46th) cycle , year of the water rat壬子 ( at the beginning of the year metal pig 辛亥)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 207th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3812/13 (September 13-14)
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DCCCV (805)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 362/363 (April turn of the year); Syria: 363/364 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	90
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	108/109 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

• Lucius Salvius Otho Titianus becomes ordinary consul of the Roman Empire .

science and technology

• August 1 : In Rome completed are conduits for water supply , Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus inaugurated.

Culture

• Emperor Claudius has the greatest naumachia in history staged on Lake Fucin . In the middle of the lake he has a mechanical triton set up, which heralds the beginning of the battle with a fanfare. On both sides, 19,000 slaves fight on 50 ships each. In front of this naumachia, the combatants greet the Roman emperor with the cry:

Ave imperator, morituri te salutant! .

Died

• Publius Ostorius Scapula , Roman governor of Britain
• Guo Shengtong , Chinese Empress

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