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Roman Empire

• Tacitus
  Tacitus
  
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
   reports that the town and port of Nauportus
  Nauportus
  
  Nauportus , ancient Roman town in Pannonia Superior on road from Aquileia to Emona with port at Nauportus river what is now Ljubljanica.According to histoirian Pliny the Elder the name was derived from the legendary landing of the Argonauts at river, where they are said to have founded the town....
   has been plundered by a mutinous Roman legion that was sent there to build roads and bridges.
• Augustus dies and is declared to be a god.
• Tiberius
  Tiberius
  
  Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
   succeeds his stepfather Augustus as Emperor of the Roman Empire
  Roman Empire
  
  The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
  .
• Legions on the Rhine
  Rhine
  
  File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
   revolt after the death of Augustus; Germanicus and Drusus
  Drusus
  
  Drusus was a Roman naming convention in Ancient Rome, and may refer to:*Drusus Caesar - was the son of Germanicus, also called Drusus III.*Gaius Livius Drusus was consul in 147 BC....
   put down the revolt.
• Germanicus
  Germanicus
  
  Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
   is appointed commander of the forces in Germany
  Germany
  
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  , beginning a campaign that will end in 16
  16
  
  Year 16 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
  .
• A census
  Census
  
  A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
   indicates that there are 4,973,000 Roman
  Roman Empire
  
  The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
   citizens.
• Claudia Marcella
  Claudia Marcella
  
  Claudia Marcella was the name of the two daughters of Octavia Minor, the sister of Emperor Augustus, from her first husband, the consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor....
   marries Sextus Appuleius
  Sextus Appuleius
  
  Sextus Appuleius The name of four figures during the 1st century BCE & 1st century. The first Sextus Appuleius was married to Octavia Major, the elder half-sister of Augustus....
  .
• Sextus Appuleius
  Sextus Appuleius
  
  Sextus Appuleius The name of four figures during the 1st century BCE & 1st century. The first Sextus Appuleius was married to Octavia Major, the elder half-sister of Augustus....
   and Sextus Pompeius serve as Roman consuls.

Asia

• First year of tianfeng era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty
  Xin Dynasty
  
  The Xin Dynasty was a China dynasty which lasted from 9-23 AD. It followed the Western Han Dynasty and preceded the Eastern Han Dynasty.The sole emperor of the Xin Dynasty, Wang Mang , was the nephew of Empress Wang Zhengjun....
  .
• Famine
  Famine
  
  A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased death....
   hits China. Some citizens turn to cannibalism
  Cannibalism
  
  Cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating other humans. The ritualistic eating of human flesh is also known as anthropophagy, from Greek: ?????p??, anthropos, "human being"; and fa?e??, phagein, "to eat"....
  .

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Art

• Hellenistic period ends, by some scholars (usual date 31 BC).

Births

• Lucius Caecilius Iucundus
  Lucius Caecilius Iucundus
  
  Lucius Caecilius Iucundus was a banker who lived in the Ancient Rome town of Pompeii in the first century. His house still stands and can be seen in the ruins of Pompeii....
  , Pompeian banker

Deaths

• August 19 — Roman Emperor Augustus.
• Julia the Elder
  Julia the Elder
  
  Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus....
  , daughter of Roman Emperor Augustus.
• Postumus Agrippa, grandson of Roman Emperor Augustus.