AD 47

AD 47 in various
AG
Thai solar calendar	589–590
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年; (male Fire-Horse); 173 or −208 or −980; — to —; 阴火羊年; (female Fire-Goat); 174 or −207 or −979

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC; 1st century ; 2nd century;
Decades:	20s; 30s; 40s ; 50s; 60s;
Years:	44; 45; 46; AD 47 ; 48; 49; 50;

AD 47 (

Vitellius (or, less frequently, year 800 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 47 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era

became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

ludi saeculares, and organises the order of the Haruspices
, with 60 members.

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is made commander of the Roman army in Germania Inferior. He conquers the Chauci and fights against the Cherusci and Frisians.
Gannascus ravage the Gallic
coast; Corbulo uses the Rhine fleet against them. The Frisian revolt is suppressed.

Publius Ostorius Scapula replaces Aulus Plautius as governor of Britain. The south-east of the island is now a Roman province, while certain states on the south coast are ruled as a nominally independent client kingdom by Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, whose seat is probably at Fishbourne near Chichester. Ostorius immediately faces incursions from unconquered areas, which he puts down.
Corbulo orders the construction of the canal
Meuse in the Netherlands, which connects the city Forum Hadriani (Voorburg
).

Romans build the Traiectum fortification near the mouth of the Rhine, which will later grow to be the city of Utrecht.
Claudius founds the city Forum Claudii Vallensium (modern
Alpes Poeninae (Switzerland
).