1st century
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| Centuries: | 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century |
| Decades: | 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s |
The 1st century is the century from 1 to 100.
[change] Decades and years
Note: years before or after the 1st century are in italics.
| 90s | 10 BC | 9 BC | 8 BC | 7 BC | 6 BC | 5 BC | 4 BC | 3 BC | 2 BC | 1 BC |
| 10s | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10s | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20s | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30s | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 |
| 40s | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 |
| 50s | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 |
| 60s | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 |
| 70s | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 |
| 80s | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 |
| 90s | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 198 | 99 |
| 200s | 200 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 |
[change] Events
- 1– This year was numbered by Dionysius Exiguus, who followed Christianity. He chose this as year one AD, because he thought it was the first year of the life of Jesus from a town called Nazareth. Historians now think Jesus was born up to four years before.
- 8–23: Wang Mang overthrew Han dynasty of China
- 28–75 Emperor Ming of Han, Buddhism reaches China
- Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
- Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon
- Tacitus mentions the Suiones, who will one day be called the Swedes.
- Kaundinya, an Indian Brahmin marries Soma and establishes the Pre-Angkor Cambodian Kingdom of Funan.
- The Goths settle in northern Poland, which they called Gothiscandza, and shape the Wielbark culture.
- Christian Council of Jerusalem
- 66, July 19: Great Fire of Rome, first Roman mass Persecution of Christians, earliest significant recognition of Christians in Rome
- 70, August: destruction of Herod's Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus
- 79, August: Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Jewish Council of Jamnia
- Spread of the Roman Empire, reaches largest size under Trajan
- Arena (colosseum) is constructed, origin of the name Arena
- Lions extinct in Western Europe
