43

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This article is about the year 43. For other uses, see 43 (number).

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Consuls are the emperor Claudius (his second consulship) and Lucius Vitellius.
• The Roman conquest of Britain begins. Aulus Plautius lands with four legions and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. He halts at the Thames and sends for Claudius, who leads the march on Camulodunum. Meanwhile, Vespasian subdues the south-west. The Romans found the cities of London, then known as Londinium, and Peterborough, and begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.
• Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.
• The Romans now have complete control of the Mediterranean.

Asia

• Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.
• The warrior Trung Sisters commit suicide after their resistance is defeated at Nam Viet in Vietnam.
• Vietnam is designated a province of China.

By topic

Religion

• In Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Coptic Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, thus establishing Christian Church in Africa.

Arts and Sciences

• Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri (probable date).

Births

• Martial, Roman poet.

Deaths

• Togodumnus, King of the Catuvellauni.
• Julia, daughter of Drusus the Younger, granddaughter of Tiberius, niece of Claudius, executed (or perhaps forced to commit suicide) at the instigation of Messalina.