Science & Discovery in the 1st century

22 sourced entries, 1 CE to 99 CE, oldest first. Also see Science & Discovery across every century or everything else in the 1st century.

• 1AD 1 – Birth of Jesus, as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to at least one scholar.source
• 2AD 2 – The first census is concluded in China after having begun the year before: final numbers show a population of nearly 60 million (59,594,978 people in slightly more than 12 million households). The census is one of the most accurate surveys in Chinese history.source
• 6AD 6 – Princeps Augustus banishes Agrippa Postumus, one of his adopted sons, to the island of Planasia.source
• 10Differentiation of localized Teutonic tribes of the Irminones.source
• 13Ovid publishes books 1-3 of his Epistulae ex Ponto.source
• 16Ovid's "Epistulae ex Ponto" appears.source
• 23Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geographica, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.source
• 30Velleius Paterculus writes the general history of the countries known in Antiquity.source
• 38Phaedrus writes his popular collection of fables.source
• 43Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri (approximate date).source
• 44Pomponius Mela writes De situ orbis, a geography of the Earth.source
• 59An eclipse on 30 April over North Africa is recorded by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History.source
• 63Aulus Cornelius Celsus writes a dictionary (encyclopedia) on the arts and sciences.source
• 66Dioscorides writes his De Materia Medica, a treatise on the methodical treatment of disease by use of medicine (approximate date).source
• 68Final year that Tacitus records Annals, a written history of the Roman Empire.source
• 76Chinese historian Ban Gu develops a theory of the origins of the universe.source
• 77Pliny the Elder publishes the first ten books of Naturalis Historia.source
• 77The Romans develop a simple method of distillation.source
• 78The Chinese philosopher Wang Chong (Wang-Ch'ung) claims all phenomena have material causes.source
• 80Martial publishes the Liber Spectaculorum.source
• 99Emperor Trajan returns to Rome.source
• 99Emissaries of the Kushan Empire reach the Roman Empire.source