e Vespasian captures many cities of Judaea.
f Flavius Josephus the historical writer, a leader of the Jews in the war, when he was about to be killed by the Romans, he predicted the death of Nero to Vespasian, and his own (rise to) power; for which reason he received his life as a reward.
f Celebrating the Isthmian, Pythian and Actian games, Nero is again crowned among the heralds, tragedians and citharists.
13 g By decree of the Senate a hundred times one hundred thousand (sesterces) are furnished to Nero as an annual allowance for expenses. 23 67
g After Peter, Linus first held the church of Rome for 11 years.
h Nero killed his wife Octavia, along with other notable men, and he drove the philosopher Cornutus, teacher of Persius, into exile. h Nero, when he was being sought out for punishment by the Senate, fleeing from the palace as far as the fourth milestone of the city, kills himself in the garden of his freedman between Salaria and
(1) Pontus Polemoniacus was added in 64 AD. M. Julius Cottius ruled the Cottian Alps as praefectus civitatium.
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Nomentana, in the 32nd year of his life, and in him the whole family of Augustus ended. (*) 2 a After Judaea had been captured and Jerusalem demolished, Titus had six hundred thousand men put to death. But Josephus writes that one million one hundred thousand perished through hunger or by the sword, and that another one hundred thousand of the captives were publicly offered for sale. Now it was because of the feast of unleavened bread that such a great number was to be found in Jerusalem. When the Jews flocked to the temple from every nation on account of this feast, they were shut up in the city as if in a prison. For it was fitting that they should be killed during the same days of Pascha on which they had crucified the Savior. 26 70
a After Nero, Galba seized power in Spain, Vitellius in Germany and Otho in Rome.
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b Marcus Fabius Quinctilianus is brought to Rome by Galba. *
212th Olympiad 4 72
c In the seventh month of his reign, Galba is beheaded, in the middle of the forum of the city of the Romans.
d Vespasian drove the Jews, who had been defeated in two battles, to the city walls.
e In the third month of his reign, Otho lay dead at Bebriacum by his own hand. (*)
b The entire length of time to the 2nd year of Vespasian and the most recent destruction of Jerusalem, is reckoned to be:
f Ignatius is ordained as the second bishop of Antioch.
from the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar and from the beginning of the preaching of the Gospel, 42 years;
g Vitellius, slain in the eighth month of his reign by Vespasian's generals, is thrown into the Tiber. (*)
7th of the Romans, Vespasian reigned for 9 years, 11 months, 22 days. however from the captivity which was endured under Antiochus, 239 years;
1 h Vespasian, proclaimed emperor in Judaea by his army, and entrusting the war to his son Titus, sets out for Rome by means of Alexandria. 25 69 again from the 2nd year of Darius, in whose reign the temple was rebuilt, 590 years;
however from the first building of the temple under Solomon until its final destruction, which happened under Vespasian, 1102 years.
i The temple of Jupiter at Rome burned down.