1st century

(1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries)

Events

• Beginning of Christianity
• Spread of the Roman Empire
• Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
• 70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
• Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
• Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon
• Buddhism reaches China
• Tacitus mentions the Suiones, who will one day be called the Swedes.
• Kaundinya, a Indian Brahmin marries Soma and establishes the Pre-Angkor Cambodian Kingdom of Funan.
• Arena (colosseum) is constructed, origin of the name Arena
• The Goths settle in northern Poland, which they called Gothiscandza, and shape the Wielbark culture.