-12

This page relates to the year -12 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • March 23rd: Octave Auguste is elected Pontifex maximus with Rome, thus joining together the civil capacities which it had with the religious capacity.

    • Auguste pontiff endeavors to restore the old Roman worships forsaken because of pushed Eastern skepticism and worships. He raises the old temples (82 for the only town of Rome) and in built the new ones. It ressuscite old religious colleges of the Brothers Arvales, the Luperques, the Saliens and old ceremonies as the omen of the Hello, the Lupercales.
  • : Meeting of notable Gallic with the Confluence ( AD confluentem , confluence of the Rhone and the Saone, i.e. with Lugdunum). Introduction of the “council of the three Gaules” and dedication of the federal Sanctuary of the three Gaules where it meets. Furnace bridges of the imperial worship are establish by Drusus with Lugdunum (Lyon) and with Cologne.
  • October 10th: Passage of the Halley's Comet.

  • Renewal for five years of the Imperium of Auguste.

  • Beginning of the second war of Germanic (fine in -7).
    • victorious Campaigns of Drusus, wire of Livie, into Germanic. It benefits from the dissensions between the Chattes and the Sicambres. It creates the provinces of Rhétie and Vindélicie, appendix the kingdom of the Norique and receives the nickname of Germanicus (- 12, -9). It subjects the Netherlands until the Frise (first mention of the Bataves, combined Romans, which would be, according to Tacite, resulting from the She-cats established in Thuringe).
  • Foundation by Drusus of the town of Argentoratum , future Strasbourg, then a simple strengthened military camp positioned on the files (border of the Roman Empire) of the the Rhine.
  • Beginning of the war of Pannonia (fine in -9).
  • Revolt in Gaulle against the abusive lifting of taxes.

Art and culture

  • the Romains dig a channel the Rhine - Zuiderzee - the North Sea.

  • Construction of the Maison Carrée to Nimes (possible date).
  • Fine of the construction of the Roman theater of Arles.
  • Fine of construction with Rome of the pyramidal tomb of Cestius Epulo (Pyramid of Cestius).
  • the Cabbage Li (Tch' or Li) made the description of an ideal State in the old China.

Births in -12

  • Clutched posthumous Postumus wire of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, girl of the Auguste emperor.

Death in -12

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