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 with the help of a slave suicide . |
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| 68 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 60/61 |
| Buddhist calendar | 611/612 (southern Buddhism); 610/611 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 46th (47th) cycle , year of the earth-dragon戊辰 ( at the beginning of the year fire-rabbit 丁卯) |
| Greek calendar | 3rd / 4th Year of the 211th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3828/29 (September 14-15) |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DCCCXXI (821) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 378/379 (turn of the year April); Syria: 379/380 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 106 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 124/125 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- Silius Italicus becomes ordinary consul of the Roman Empire .
- Spring: Gaius Iulius Vindex , governor of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis , rises against the Roman emperor Nero . Several legions join him, but he does not strive for the purple himself, but wants to win Galba , the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, for this task. The two are also supported by Otho , the governor of Lusitania .
- April 3 : Galba is proclaimed Roman emperor .
- May: Lucius Verginius Rufus , governor of Germania superior , defeats Gaius Iulius Vindex in the battle of Vesontio , Vindex commits suicide.
- Early June: The Roman Senate declares Nero an enemy of the state and confirms Galba's elevation to emperor, who is then also recognized by Rufus. Galba goes to Rome on June 8th .
- June 9th : The 30-year-old Emperor Nero stabs himself outside Rome with the help of a slave. On his flight to Egypt , the persecutors came very close to his stay. The Julian-Claudian dynasty ends with Nero's suicide . A civil war over the succession breaks out.
religion
- 68/ 69 : Ignatius of Antioch is the successor of the late Euodius Patriarch of Antioch .
Died
- May: Gaius Iulius Vindex , governor in Gaul (* around 25 )
- June 9 : Nero , Roman Emperor (* 37 )
- June: Spiculus , officer of the Germanic bodyguard of Nero
- Autumn: Fonteius Capito , Roman senator, governor in Lower Germany
- Cingonius Varro , Roman politician
- Lucius Clodius Macer , Legate in Africa, usurper
- Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus , Praetorian Prefect
- Publius Petronius Turpilianus , Roman politician
- Tiberius Julius Mithridates , Roman client king of the Bosporan Empire
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