AD 52

• Emperor Claudius attempts to control the Fucine Lake by digging a 5.6 km tunnel through Monte Salviano, requiring 30,000 workers and eleven years.
• Claudius completes the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus, two aqueduct projects started by Caligula^[1]
• In Rome a law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves.
• Ananias, a high priest in Jerusalem, is sent to Rome
  after being accused of violence.
• Barea Soranus is consul suffectus in Rome.
• Pliny the Elder writes his account of the German wars.
• Vologases I, comes to power in Armenia
  as an adversary of the Romans.
• In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula dies while campaigning against the Silures of south Wales. Following his death, the Roman Second Legion are heavily defeated by the Silures. His replacement is Aulus Didius Gallus, who quells the rebellion and consolidates the gains the Romans have so far made, but does not seek new ones.

China

• The Yuejue Shu, the first known gazetteer of China, is written during the Han Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• Indian Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East
  claim descent from him.

• Gamaliel, Jewish leader (nasi) (approximate date)
• Guo Shengtong, Chinese empress of the Han Dynasty
• Julia Iotapa, queen of Commagene (approximate date)
• Publius Ostorius Scapula, Roman statesman and general

References

Bibliography

• Stambaugh, John E. (1988). The Ancient Roman City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  ISBN 0-8018-3574-7
  .