30 CE

Agrippina the Elder (the wife of Germanicus) and two of her sons, Nero Julius Caesar and Drusus Caesar, are arrested and exiled on orders of Lucius Aelius Sejanus (the prefect of the Praetorian Guard), and later starved to death in suspicious circumstances. In Sejanus's purge of Agrippina the Elder and her family, her son Caligula, and her three daughters, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla are the only survivors. Velleius Paterculus writes the general history of the countries known in Antiquity. Phaedrus translates Aesop's fables, and composes some of his own.

In the 30s, the 1st century.

Religion & Belief

  • Jesus is crucified in Jerusalem (possible date)source

Crime & Justice

  • Agrippina the Elder (the wife of Germanicus) and two of her sons, Nero Julius Caesar and Drusus Caesar, are arrested and exiled on orders of Lucius Aelius Sejanus (the prefect of the Praetorian Guard), and later starved to death in suspicious circumstances. In Sejanus's purge of Agrippina the Elder and her family, her son Caligula, and her three daughters, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla are the only survivors.source

Culture & Society

  • The Kushan Empire is founded (approximate date).source
  • Velleius Paterculus writes the general history of the countries known in Antiquity.source
  • Phaedrus translates Aesop's fables, and composes some of his own.source

Births

  • November 8 – Nerva, Roman emperor (died AD 98)source
  • Quintus Petillius Cerialis, Roman generalsource
  • Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero (died AD 65)source
  • Jia Kui, Chinese Confucian philosopher (died AD 101)source
  • Mobon of Goguryeo, Korean king (died AD 53)source