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Year 79 was a common year starting on Friday
Common year starting on Friday

This is the calendar for any common year starting on Friday . Examples: Gregorian calendar years 1993, 1999 & 2010 or Julian calendar years 1910 & 1899 ....
 (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 79 was a common year starting on Friday
Common year starting on Friday

This is the calendar for any common year starting on Friday . Examples: Gregorian calendar years 1993, 1999 & 2010 or Julian calendar years 1910 & 1899 ....
 (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
  • June 23 - Titus
    Titus

    Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Titus , was a Roman Emperor who briefly reigned from 79 until his death in 81. Titus was the second emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96, encompassing the reigns of Titus's father Vespasian , Titus himself and his younger brother Domitian ....
     succeeds his father Vespasian
    Vespasian

    Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
     as Roman emperor.
  • August 24 - Mount Vesuvius
    Mount Vesuvius

    Mount Vesuvius is an stratovolcano east of Naples Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently eruption....
     erupts, destroying Pompeii
    Pompeii

    Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Ancient Rome town-city near modern Naples in the Italy region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei....
     and Herculaneum
    Herculaneum

    Herculaneum is an ancient Roman Empire town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. Its ruins can be found at the co-ordinates , in the Italy region of Campania....
    .
  • Roman 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....
     Titus
    Titus

    Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Titus , was a Roman Emperor who briefly reigned from 79 until his death in 81. Titus was the second emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96, encompassing the reigns of Titus's father Vespasian , Titus himself and his younger brother Domitian ....
     dedicates the famous Roman
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
     Colosseum
    Colosseum

    The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre , is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire....
    .
  • Gnaeus Julius Agricola
    Gnaeus Julius Agricola

    Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
     enters Scotland
    Scotland

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     but is resisted by the Caledonia
    Caledonia

    Caledonia is the Latin name given by the Ancient Rome to the land in today's Scotland north of their Roman provinces of Roman Britain, beyond the Frontiers of the Roman Empire of their Roman Empire....
    ns.
  • Gnaeus Julius Agricola
    Gnaeus Julius Agricola

    Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
     founds Mamucium, a frontier fort and settlement in the North West of England. This was the first Manchester
    Manchester

    Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
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  • To please the Senate
    Roman Senate

    The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
    , Titus exiles his Jewish mistress
    Mistress (lover)

    A mistress is a man's long-term female sexual partner and companion who is not marriage to him, especially used when the man is married to another woman....
    , Berenice of Cilicia
    Berenice of Cilicia

    Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice and sometimes spelled Bernice , was a Jewish Client state of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century....
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Asia
  • In China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    , a commission of scholars canonizes the text of works of Confucius
    Confucius

    This articles talks about a Chinese thinker and social philosopher. For a food company in China with its brand name "Master Kong", please refer to Tingyi Holding Corporation....
     and his school.


Births

  • Emperor He of Han
    Emperor He of Han

    Emperor He of Han, Chinese character ???, Pinyin. h?n h? d?, Wade-Giles. Han Ho-ti, was an emperor of China of the Chinese Han Dynasty who ruled from 88 to 105....
     (d. 106
    106

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  • Ma Rong
    Ma Rong

    Ma Rong , courtesy name Jichang , was a commentaror of the Han Dynasty. He was born in modern Xianyang in former Fufeng county. He was known for his commentaries on the books on the Five Classics, and the first scholar known to have done this....
     (d. 166
    166

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Deaths

  • June 23 — Roman emperor Vespasian
    Vespasian

    Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
  • August 24 — Pliny the Elder
    Pliny the Elder

    Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
    , Roman writer and scientist (killed by Vesuvius eruption)
  • September 23 — Pope Linus
    Pope Linus

    Saint Linus was the second Bishop of Rome, according to Irenaeus, Jerome, Eusebius of Caesarea, John Chrysostom, the Liberian Catalogue and the Liber Pontificalis; he was succeeded by Pope Anacletus....
  • Caesius Bassus
    Caesius Bassus

    Caesius Bassus was a Roman Empire lyric poet, who lived in the reign of Nero.He was the intimate friend of Aulus Persius Flaccus, who dedicated his sixth satire to him, and whose works be edited ....
    , Roman poet (killed by Vesuvius eruption)
  • Empress Ma
    Empress Ma (Ming)

    Empress Ma , formally Empress Mingde , was an empress during Han Dynasty from the year 60 until her death. Her husband was Emperor Ming of Han....