60

60 is a year in the 1st century.

 Events 
 Roman Empire 
 Romans build the first London Bridge.
 Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, made a will.  He left his kingdom to his two daughters and emperor Nero.
 The Roman army annexed East Anglia. 
 Boudica, widow of Prasutagus, is flogged and then forced to witness the public rape of her daughters.
 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, governor of Britannia, leads a campaign on the island of Mona (Anglesey).    
 Boudica joins the British Celtic tribes in revolt, along with the Cornovii, Durotriges and Trinovantes. 
 The rebels defeat Legio IX Hispana and destroyed the capital Camulodunum (modern Colchester). 
 Boudica sacks Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans). Thousands of civilians are killed.
Paulinus returns and reorganises his army. The Romans defeat Boudica's alliance, and slaughter the defeated enemy.
 Nero has people explore the historical city Meroë (Sudan).
 The Rhoxolani are defeated on the Danube by the Romans.
 Vitellius is (possibly) proconsul of Africa.
 Herod Agrippa II rules the northeast of Judea.

 By topic 
 Religion 
 The First Epistle of Peter, if by Saint Peter, is probably written between this year and c. 64.
 Paul of Tarsus goes to Rome.  He is shipwrecked at Malta. He stays for three months and converts Publius, the first Bishop of Malta.

 Art and science 
 Hero of Alexandria writes Metrica, Mechanics, and Pneumatics.
 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.

 Deaths 

 Domitius Afer, Roman orator

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