44

The year 44 AD.
==Events==
* During Passover, Herod Agrippa beheads James the son of Zebedee, and imprisons the apostle Peter (Acts 12) God sends an angel to release Peter from prison.
* Herod Agrippa heads to Caeserea to sue for peace among the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, who depended on Judea for food. The people procalimed Agrippa to be a god, but the true God struck Agrippa down.
* Iudaea Province returns to direct Roman rule. Cuspius Fadus appointed procurator.
==Deaths==
* James the Great, by beheading
* Herod Agrippa, King of the Jews (divine intervention as punishment for blasphemy)
Category:1st century