- For alternate uses, see Number 40.
Events- Christianity comes to Egypt as a church is founded in Alexandria. Mark the Evangelist founds the Coptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.
- Early Christian church erected at Corinth (most probable date].
- Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain.
- German tribe Quadi begin settling in today Moravia and Slovakia.
- Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.
Births - Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
- Frontinus, Roman general and military author
- Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
- July 13 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain
Deaths - January - Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy).
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)
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