26 CE Emperor Tiberius retires to Capri, leaving the Praetorian Guard under Lucius Aelius Sejanus in charge of the Roman Empire and the city of Rome. Pontius Pilate is appointed as prefect of the Roman imperial province of Judea. Xinlun is presented by author Huan Tan to Emperor Guangwu of Han with its final chapter (on zither music) still unfinished.
In the 20s , the 1st century .
Emperor Tiberius retires to Capri, leaving the Praetorian Guard under Lucius Aelius Sejanus in charge of the Roman Empire and the city of Rome.source Romans crush an uprising of Thracian tribesmen.source Pontius Pilate is appointed as prefect of the Roman imperial province of Judea.source Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist and begins his public ministry, according to some scholars.source Xinlun is presented by author Huan Tan to Emperor Guangwu of Han with its final chapter (on zither music) still unfinished.source Deaths Claudia Pulchra, cousin and close friend to Agrippina the Elder (born 14 BC)source Quintus Haterius, Roman politiciansource Marcus Asinius Agrippa, Roman consulsource Sun Deng, Chinese puppet emperorsource Nearby 20–29 9 of 9 sourced entries shown. Every line above is quoted from the revision linked beside it, which is 20s on English Wikipedia, revision 1369984933, retrieved 2026-09-06. Nothing on this page is written by us and nothing is generated: the sentences are the source’s own, so a claim you doubt can be checked against the exact revision it came from. Text is reused under CC BY-SA 4.0 .