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Year 44 was a leap year starting on Wednesday
Leap year starting on Wednesday

This is the calendar for any leap year starting on Wednesday , such as 1992.Common year starting on Tuesday | Common year starting on Friday...
 (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
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Year 44 was a leap year starting on Wednesday
Leap year starting on Wednesday

This is the calendar for any leap year starting on Wednesday , such as 1992.Common year starting on Tuesday | Common year starting on Friday...
 (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
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Events


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Roman Empire
  • Consul
    Consul

    Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
    s are Titus Statilius Taurus and Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus
    Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus

    Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus was a prominent figure in the Roman Empire during the 1st century. He was the adopted grandson and biological great, great nephew of the historian Sallust....
    '
  • The emperor
    Roman Emperor

    The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
     Claudius
    Claudius

    Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
     returns from his British campaign
    Roman conquest of Britain

    By AD 43, the time of the main Roman invasion of Britain, Great Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire....
     in triumph, the southeast part of Britain now held by the Roman Empire, but the war will rage for another decade and a half.
  • Mauretania
    Mauretania

    In Antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Berber people monarchy on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa , corresponding to western Algeria, northern Morocco and Spain Plazas de soberan?a....
     becomes a 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....
     province
    Roman province

    In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of the Italia ....
    .
  • The Isle of Rhodes
    Rhodes

    Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
     returns to 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....
    .
  • With the death of Herod Agrippa, who may have been poisoned by the Romans, Judaea is controlled by Roman governors.
  • Cuspius Fadus
    Cuspius Fadus

    Cuspius Fadus was the Roman procurator of Iudaea Province between 44 and 46. He is mentioned by Josephus.He was succeeded in 46 by Tiberius Julius Alexander....
    , governor of Judea
    Judea

    Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
     (44–46), suppresses the revolt of Theudas
    Theudas

    Theudas was a Jewish rebel who probably claimed to be the Messiah. His name, if a Ancient Greek compound, may mean "gift of God", although other scholars believe its etymology is Semitic languages....
     who is decapitated.


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Arts and Sciences
  • Pomponius Mela
    Pomponius Mela

    Pomponius Mela, who wrote around 43, was the earliest Roman Empire geographer.His little work is a mere compendium, occupying less than one hundred pages of ordinary print, dry in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and occasionally relieved by pleasing word-pictures....
     writes De situ orbis, a geography of the Earth.


Births


Deaths

  • Saint James the Great
    Saint James the Great

    Saint James, son of Zebedee or Yaakov Ben-Zebdi/Bar-Zebdi, was one of the disciples of Jesus. He was a son of Zebedee and Salome , and brother of John the Apostle....
     (martyrdom
    Martyr

    The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
    )
  • Agrippa I
    Agrippa I

    Agrippa I also called the Great , King of the Jews, was the grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice . His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, and he is the king named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles, in the Bible, "Herod " ....
     of Judea
    Judea

    Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
  • Claudia Julia, executed niece of Claudius
    Claudius

    Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
     and Messalina
    Messalina

    Valeria Messalina, sometimes spelled Messallina, was a Ancient Rome Empress as the third wife of Roman Emperor Claudius. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she conspired against her husband and was executed when the plot was discovered....
     (or 43
    43

    Year 43 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
    /45
    45

    Year 45 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
    )
  • Wu Han
    Wu Han

    Wu Han was a famous Eastern Han Dynasty general who made great contributions to Emperor Guangwu of Han 's reestablishment of the Han Dynasty and who is commonly regarded as Emperor Guangwu's best general, but who was also known for cruelty against civilians....
    , general of Han Dynasty
    Han Dynasty

    The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....