39 CE
Caligula orders a floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for two miles from Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli. Agrippa I, king of Judaea, successfully accuses Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of conspiracy against Caligula. Antipas is exiled and Agrippa receives his territory. The Trung Sisters resist the Chinese influences in Vietnam.
In the 30s, the 1st century.
Geopolitics & Diplomacy
Conflict & Security
Religion & Belief
- Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.source
- Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the Temple in Jerusalem. The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, who is responsible for having an erecting the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula in AD 41.source
Technology & Infrastructure
- Caligula orders a floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for two miles from Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.source
Crime & Justice
- Agrippa I, king of Judaea, successfully accuses Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of conspiracy against Caligula. Antipas is exiled and Agrippa receives his territory.source
Disasters & Accidents
- Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.source
Births
- November 3 – Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Roman poet (died AD 65)source
- December 30 – Titus Flavius, Roman emperor (died AD 81)source
- Julia Drusilla, daughter of Caligula (died AD 41)source