Health & Medicine in the 1st century

17 sourced entries, 6 CE to 98 CE, oldest first. Also see Health & Medicine across every century or everything else in the 1st century.

• 6AD 6 – Due to a catastrophic fire in Rome, the barracks system - the vigiles, initially manned only by freedmen - is created by the Princeps Augustus to allow quicker response to outbreaks of fire in the city.source
• 37October – Caligula becomes seriously ill, or perhaps is poisoned. He recovers from his illness, but Caligula turns toward the diabolical: he starts to kill off those who are close to him, whom he sees as a serious threat.source
• 38An epidemic breaks out in K'aui-chi, causing many deaths. Imperial official Ch'ung-li I provides medicines that save many lives.source
• 38Apion heads a deputation to Emperor Caligula, to complain about the Jews in Alexandria.source
• 46A census shows that there are more than 6,000,000 Roman citizens.source
• 50In Judaea, a Roman soldier seizes and burns a Torah scroll. Procurator Cumanus has the culprit beheaded, calming down local Jews and delaying for almost two decades the outbreak of their revolt.source
• 50Pedanius Dioscorides describes the medical applications of plants in De Materia Medica.source
• 52In Rome, a law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves.source
• 53Seneca writes the tragedy Agamemnon, which he intends to be read as the last chapter of a trilogy including two of his other tragedies, Medea and Edipus.source
• 58The friendship between Nero and Marcus Salvius Otho ends when they both fall in love with Poppea Sabina, and Otho is sent to Lusitania as governor.source
• 58In China, sacrifices to Confucius are ordered in all government schools.source
• 70Annexation of the island of Samothrace by the Roman Empire under Vespasian.source
• 71Mithraism begins to spread throughout the Roman Empire.source
• 83In Rome, the castration of slaves is prohibited.source
• 87Lyon, a city in Gaul, has a population of over 100,000 citizens (approximate date).source
• 95In Rome a severe form of malaria appears in the farm districts and will continue for the next 500 years, taking out of cultivation the fertile land of the Campagna, whose market gardens supply the city with fresh products. The fever drives small groups of farmers into the crowded city, bringing the malaria with them, and lowers Rome's live-birth rate while rates elsewhere in the empire are rising.source
• 98January 1 – Emperor Nerva suffers a stroke during a private audience.source