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Roman Empire

• September 22 — Emperor 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....
   creates the legion
  Roman legion
  
  The Roman Legion is a term that can apply both as a translation of legio to the entire Roman army and also, more narrowly , to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the Roman army in the period of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire....
   I Italica
  Legio I Italica
  
  Legio prima Italica was a Roman legion levied by emperor Nero on September 22, 66 . There are still records of the I Italica in the Danube border in the beginning of the 5th century....
  .
• The Jewish Revolt
  First Jewish-Roman War
  
  The first Jewish-Roman War , sometimes called The Great Revolt , was the first of three Jewish-Roman wars by the Jews of Iudaea Province against the Roman Empire ....
   (66-70
  70
  
  Year 70 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar....
  ) commences against 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....
  : The Zealots take Jerusalem
  Jerusalem
  
  Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
   and the Sicarii
  Sicarii
  
  Sicarii is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group to the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Roman Empire and their partisans from Judea....
   capture the fortress of Masada
  Masada
  
  Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated rock plateau, or large mesa, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea....
  .
• Cestius Gallus
  Cestius Gallus
  
  Gaius Cestius Gallus was the son of a consul in ancient Rome and himself a suffect consul in 42.He was Legatus of Syria from 63 or 65. He marched into Judea in 66 in an attempt to restore calm at the outset of the Great Jewish Revolt....
  , legate
  Legatus
  
  A legatus was a general in the Roman army, equivalent to a modern general officer. Being of Roman senate rank, his immediate superior was the dux, and he outranked all military tribunes....
   of Syria
  Syria (Roman province)
  
  Syria was a Roman province, annexed in 64 BC by Pompey, as a consequence of his military presence after pursuing victory in the Third Mithridatic War....
  , attempts to put down the Jewish rebellion.
• Roman Legion II Augusta is stationed at Gloucester
  Gloucester
  
  Gloucester is a city status in the United Kingdom, Non-metropolitan district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West England region of England....
  .
• Suetonius Paullinus becomes a Roman Consul.

Asia

• Baekje
  Baekje
  
  Baekje , or Paekche , was a kingdom located in southwest Korea. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla....
   invades Silla
  Silla
  
  Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and the longest sustaining dynasty in Asian history. Although it was founded by King Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla, who is also known to be the originator of the Korean family name Park , the dynasty was to see the Kyungju Kim clan hold rule for most of its 992-year history....
   in the Korean peninsula
  Korean Peninsula
  
  The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water....
  , and captures Castle Ugok.

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Religion

• The First Epistle to Timothy
  First Epistle to Timothy
  
  The First Epistle to Timothy is one of three letters in New Testament of the Bible often grouped together as the Pastoral Epistles. The letter, traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus, consists mainly of counsels to his younger colleague and delegate Timothy regarding his ministry in Ephesus ....
   is written (approximate date).

Arts and Science

• Dioscorides writes his De Materia Medica, a treatise on the methodical treatment of disease by use of medicine.

Astronomy

• Halley's Comet is visible.

Births

Deaths

• Petronius
  Petronius
  
  Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman Empire courtier during the reign Nero. He is speculated to be the author of the Satyricon, a satire believed to have been written during the Neronian age....
  , Roman writer