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Nero has his mother Agrippina murdered.
59 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	51/52
Buddhist calendar	602/603 (southern Buddhism); 601/602 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	45th (46th) cycle , year of the earth-sheep己未 ( at the beginning of the year earth-horse 戊午)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 209th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3819/20 (September 26-27)
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DCCCXII (812)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 369/370 (April turn of the year); Syria: 370/371 (New Year October)
Spanish era	97
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	115/116 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

• Roman Empire : Nero has his mother Agrippina murdered the younger .

Depiction of the riots during the gladiatorial games

• Serious unrest during a gladiator fight between battle- goers from Pompeii and Nuceria Alfaterna , whereupon Nero forbids gladiator fights in the region.

Died

• Agrippina the Younger , mother of Emperor Nero (* 15 )
• Domitia , Roman noblewoman, aunt Nero (* around 19 BC )
• Gnaeus Domitius Afer , Roman politician
• Iunia Silana , Roman senator's daughter (* around 15 )
• Servilius Nonianus , Roman historian

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