49

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This article is about the year 49. For other uses, see 49 (number).

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Year 49 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina the Younger (approximate date).
Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor.
Melankomas is the boxing champion at the 207th Olympic Games.
Likely date for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome.
Nero becomes engaged to Octavia, daughter of Claudius.
Agrippina the Younger charges Octavia's first fiancé Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus with incest. He is brought before the Senate and sentenced to death.
In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum (Colchester). Verulamium (St Albans) is probably established as a municipium the same year. A legion is stationed on the borders of the Silures of South Wales in preparation for invasion.

New Testament book Paul's Epistle to the Galatians is probably written.
Christianity spreads into Europe, especially at Rome and at Philippi (probable date according to chronology derived from the Acts of the Apostles).

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