AD 79

• Roman Consuls
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• Jewish mistress, Berenice, comes to join him in Rome, but he exiles her to please the Senate
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• Misenum), commanded by Pliny the Elder, evacuates refugees. Pliny dies after inhaling volcanic fumes.^[1]
• Roman conquest of Britain: Gnaeus Julius Agricola campaigns in Britain:
  • Chester is founded as a castrum or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix. The fortress is built by Legio II Adiutrix and contains barracks, granaries, military baths and headquarters.
  • Mamucium (the first Manchester) is founded as a frontier fort and settlement in the North West of England, a distance to the north of Chester.
  • Agricola enters Caledonia (modern-day Scotland) but is resisted by the natives.

China

• A commission of scholars canonizes the text of works of Confucius and his school.

Births

• He of Han, Chinese emperor (d. 106)
• Ma Rong, Chinese poet and politician (d. 166)

Deaths

• June 24 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (b. AD 9)^[2]
• August 16 – Ma, Chinese empress of the Han Dynasty (b. AD 40)
• August 25 – Caesius Bassus, Roman poet (died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius)
• eruption of Vesuvius
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• August 25 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and scientist (b. AD 23)^[1]
• Apollinaris of Ravenna, Syrian bishop and martyr (approximate date)
• Aulus Caecina Alienus, Roman general and politician (executed)
• Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, Roman politician and astrologer (b. AD 3)
• Titus Clodius Eprius Marcellus, Roman politician (committed suicide)

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