years.md

A Selected History of the Years AD

1. Jesus Christ is born.
2. The first census is concluded in China after having begun the year before: final numbers show a population of nearly 60 million in slightly more than 12 million households. The census is one of the most accurate surveys in Chinese history.
3. The rule of the Roman Emperor Augustus is renewed for a ten-year period.
4. Nicolaus of Damascus, a Greek historian and philosopher, writes the History of the World in 144 books, of which extensive fragments of the first seven books are preserved in quotation in the Constantinian Excerpts.
5. Paul the Apostle, writer of much of the New Testament, is born
6. Augustus has a busy year. There's a catastrophic fire in Rome; he creates the barracks system vigiles. There's a food shortage; he doubles the people's grain rations, sends away his slaves, and forces the senate into indefinite recess. He sets up a treasury to pay bonuses to retiring legion veterans, which is financed by a 5% tax on inheritances. He dedicates the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome to Tiberius. He quashes a pamphletting campaign in Rome, and banishes Agrippa Postumus, one of his adopted sons, to the island of Planasia.

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