AD 50

Specialty Definition: 1st century

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(1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries)

Events:

beginning of Christianity
spread of Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanach
Pompeii destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 AD
Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon.
Buddhism reaches China.

Significant persons:

Jesus Christ
Saint Paul
Pliny the Elder
Tacitus
Seneca
Josephus
Nero
Titus
Boudicca

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

paper invented in China

Decades and Years

0s BC 9 BC 8 BC 7 BC 6 BC 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC 1 BC
0s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10s 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20s 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30s 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
40s 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
50s 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
60s 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69
70s 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79
80s 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89
90s 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
100s 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109

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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century

Decades: 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s - 50s - 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s

Years: 45 46 47 48 49 - 50 - 51 52 53 54 55 Events

Londinium is founded by the Romans, taking over as capital of the Roman Empire, from Colchester.
Roman Emperor Claudius makes Agrippa II governor of Chalcis.
Cologne is raised to the status of city.
Exeter is founded as Isca Dumnoniorum.
Tripontium (near modern Rugby) is founded.
The Roman fort of Manduessedum (near modern Atherstone) is founded (approximate date).
Pedanius Dioscorides describes the medical applications of plants in De Materia Medica
Caratacus is captured after the Roman victory at the Battle of Caer Caradock.
Pamphilus of Alexandria writes a poetic lexicon.
Hero of Alexandria invents a steam turbine (possible date).
The Iazyges occupy the plains to the east of the Theiss.

Births

Deaths

Abgarus of Edessa, king of Osroene

For the number 50, see fifty.

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Anagrams: AD 50

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "0-5-a-d"
	-2 letters: ad.
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Alternative Orthography: AD 50

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 35 30

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 00100000 00110101 00110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#32 &#53 &#48

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0035 0030

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)