Some WORLD and BIBLE EVENTS
DATE-AD EVENT
1 Saddles first used in Rome
4 Herod the Great dies
5 Paul born
6 Judea becomes a Roman providence
Jesus visits Temple as a boy
7 Zealots in Judea rebel against Rome
14 Tiberius succeeds Caesar Agustus as Roman Emperor
26 Pontius Pilate appointed governor
John the Baptist begins his ministry
27 Jesus begins his ministry
30 Jesus crucified; ascends into heaven; Pentecost, church begins
35 Saul’s conversion on Damascus road
40 Herod Agrippa appointed king of Judea
43 London England founded; first definite reference to Diamonds
46 Saul/Paul begins first missionary journey
50 Romans begin using soap
54 Claudius poisoned by order of his wife;
Nero becomes emperor
57 Paul writes letter to Romans; Paul imprisoned in Caesarea
59 Paul’s voyage to Rome
60 Paul writes ‘prison letters’
62 Paul released from prison
64 Fire burns much of Rome; Nero blames Christians for setting it
66 Painting on canvas
67 Paul martyred
68 Romans destroy Jewish religious commune of the Essene sect. Before Essenes were captured they hid their library of Bible manuscripts in a cave in Qumram by the dead sea (to be discovered in 1948)
70 Romans destroy Jerusalem
73 960 Jews commit mass suicide at Masada while under Roman attach
74 China open silk trade with the west
75 Rome begins construction of famous coliseum
79 Vesuvius in Italy erupts killing 30,000 people and burying cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum
95 Apostle John writes Revelation
*Dates are best extimates
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