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Year 50 was a common year starting on Thursday
Common year starting on Thursday

This is the calendar for any common year starting on Thursday . Examples: Gregorian calendar years 1987, 1998 & 2009 or Julian calendar year 1915 ....
 (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 50 was a common year starting on Thursday
Common year starting on Thursday

This is the calendar for any common year starting on Thursday . Examples: Gregorian calendar years 1987, 1998 & 2009 or Julian calendar year 1915 ....
 (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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Roman Empire
  • Roman Emperor 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....
     appoints Agrippa II
    Agrippa II

    Agrippa II , son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great, thus last of the Herodians....
     governor of Chalcis
    Chalcis

    Chalcis or Chalkida, Halkida, Halkis or Chalkis , the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point....
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  • Claudius adopts Nero
    Nero

    Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
    .
  • Cologne
    History of Cologne

    The History of Cologne, Germany's oldest major city, can be broken into several periods....
     is raised to the status of a city.
  • In Britain
    Roman Britain

    Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia....
    , governor Publius Ostorius Scapula
    Publius Ostorius Scapula

    Publius Ostorius Scapula was a Roman empire statesman and general who governed Roman Britain from 47 until his death, and was responsible for the defeat and capture of Caratacus....
     begins his campaign against the recalcitrant Silures
    Silures

    The Silures were a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Great Britain, occupying approximately the counties of Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Glamorganshire in south Wales....
     of south Wales
    Wales

    native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
    , who are led by the former Catuvellauni
    Catuvellauni

    The Catuvellauni were a Celtic/Belgae tribe or state of south-eastern Prehistoric Britain before the Roman conquest of Britain.The fortunes of the Catuvellauni and their kings before the conquest can be traced through numismatic evidence and scattered references in classical histories....
    an prince Caratacus
    Caratacus

    Caratacus was a historical British Iron Age chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest. The legendary Welsh mythology character Caradoc and the legendary British king Arvirargus may be based upon Caratacus....
    . London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     (Londinium
    Londinium

    This article covers the history of London during the Roman Britain from around 47 AD when the Roman city of Londinium was founded, to its abandonment during the 5th century....
    ), Exeter
    Exeter

    Exeter Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Roman Britain and has existed since time immemorial. Exeter Cathedral, founded in 1050 is Anglicanism....
     (Isca Dumnoniorum
    Isca Dumnoniorum

    Isca Dumnoniorum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Exeter, located in the England county of Devon....
    ), Tripontium
    Tripontium

    Tripontium was a town in Roman Britain. It lay on the Roman road later called Watling Street at a site now chiefly within the civil parish of Newton and Biggin in the England county of Warwickshire and partly in Leicestershire, some 3.4 miles north-east of Rugby, Warwickshire and 3.1 miles south of Lutterworth....
     (near modern Rugby
    Rugby, Warwickshire

    Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England, on the River Avon, Warwickshire. The town has a population of 61,988...
    ) and the fort of Manduessedum
    Manduessedum

    Manduessedum was a Roman Britain castra and later a civilian small town in the Roman Province of Britannia. Today it is known as Mancetter, located in the England county of Warwickshire....
     (near modern Atherstone
    Atherstone

    Atherstone is a town in Warwickshire, England. The town is located near the northernmost tip of Warwickshire, close to the border with Staffordshire and Leicestershire, and is the administrative headquarters of the borough of North Warwickshire....
    ) are founded (approximate date).
  • The Iazyges
    Iazyges

    The Iazyges were a nomadic tribe. Known also as Jaxamatae, Ixibatai, Iazygite, J?szok, ?szi. They were a branch of the Sarmatian people who, c....
     settle in the plains to the east of the Tisza River.
  • Romans
    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....
     learn the use of soap
    SOAP

    SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks....
     from the Gauls
    Gauls

    The Gauls were a Continental Celtic Celts people of Classical Antiquity, the inhabitants of Gaul , and speakers of the Gaulish language.Archaeologically, they were the bearers of the La T?ne culture ....
    .
  • Rome now has a population of 1 million.
  • Utrecht
    Utrecht (city)

    Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands province of Utrecht . It is located in the North-Eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030....
     is founded around this year as a fortress at the Rhine border
    Limes

    A limes was a border defense or delimiting system of Ancient Rome. It marked the Borders of the Roman Empire.The Latin language noun limes had a number of different meanings: a path or balk delimiting Field , a boundary line or marker, any road or path, any channel, such as a stream channel, or any distinction or difference....
     in the present-day Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
    .


Asia
  • The Tocharian
    Tocharian

    Tocharian may refer to:* Tocharians, an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in Central Asia* Tocharian languages, two Indo-European languages spoken by those people...
     or Yue-Chi tribes are united under the Kushan leader Kujula Kadphises
    Kujula Kadphises

    Kujula Kadphises, reigned was a Kushan prince who united the Yuezhi confederation during the 1st century CE, and became the first Kushan emperor....
    , thus creating the Kushan Empire
    Kushan Empire

    The Kushan Empire of Ancient India originally formed in Bactria on either side of the middle course of the Oxus River or Syr Darya in what is now northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan....
     in Afghanistan and northern India. (approximate date)


By topic


Religion
  • The Apostles
    Twelve Apostles

    In Christianity, apostles were missionaries among the leaders in the Early Christianity and, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, Jesus Christ himself....
     hold the Council of Jerusalem
    Council of Jerusalem

    The Council of Jerusalem is a name applied subsequently to a meeting described in Acts of the Apostles chapter and probably referred to in Paul of Tarsus's Epistle to the Galatians chapter ....
     (approximate date).
  • Christianity
    Christianity

    Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
     is introduced throughout Nubia
    Nubia

    Nubia is a region in Southern Egypt along the Nile and in what is now northern Sudan. Most of Nubia is situated in Sudan with about a quarter of its territory in Egypt....
     by a high official of Queen Judith.
  • The Epistle to the Romans
    Epistle to the Romans

    The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of Scripture of the Christianity Bible. Often referred to simply as Romans, it is one of the seven currently undisputed letters of Paul the Apostle....
     is written (approximate date).


Art and science
  • Pedanius Dioscorides
    Pedanius Dioscorides

    Pedanius Dioscorides was an ancient ancient Greece physician, pharmacologist and botanist from Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, who practised in ancient Rome during the time of Nero....
     describes the medical applications of plants in De Materia Medica.
  • Pamphilus of Alexandria
    Pamphilus of Alexandria

    Pamphilus was a Greek grammarian, of the school of Aristarchus of Samothrace.He was the author of a comprehensive lexicon, in 95 books, of foreign or obscure words, the idea of which was credited to another grammarian, Zopyrion, himself the compiler of the first four books....
     writes a poetic lexicon.
  • Hero of Alexandria
    Hero of Alexandria

    Hero of Alexandria . was an ancient Greek mathematics who was a resident of a Roman province ; he was also an engineer who was active in his hometown of Alexandria....
     invents a steam turbine
    Steam turbine

    A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1884....
     (possible date).
  • Diogenes, the Greek explorer, discovers the African Great Lakes
    African Great Lakes

    The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the geographic Great Rift Valley formed by the action of the tectonic East African Rift....
    .
  • The distinction between chronic maladies and acute illnesses is made by Thessalos.


Births

  • Cai Lun
    Cai Lun

    Cai Lun , courtesy name Jingzhong , was a China eunuch, who is conventionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper ....
    , Chinese inventor of paper
    Paper

    Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
     and the papermaking
    Papermaking

    Papermaking is the process of making paper, a substance which is used ubiquitously today for writing and packaging.In papermaking a dilute suspension of fibers in water is drained through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibers is laid down....
     process (d. 121
    121

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Deaths

  • Abgarus of Edessa, king of Osroene
    Osroene

    Osroene , also known by the name of its capital city, Edessa, Mesopotamia , was a historic Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people kingdom located in Mesopotamia, which enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 244....
  • Aulus Cornelius Celsus
    Aulus Cornelius Celsus

    Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Ancient Rome encyclopedist, known for his Extant literature medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia....
    , author of De Medicina
  • Gamaliel the Elder, the nasi
    Nasi

    Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
     of the Jewish people in Babylonia
    Babylonia

    Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia , Babylon as its franklin. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad....
  • Philo
    Philo

    Philo , known also as Philo of Alexandria , Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia and Philo the Jew, was a Hellenistic Judaism philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt....
     of Alexandria
    Alexandria

    Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
    , Jewish philosopher (b. 20 BC) (approximate date)