This page relates to the year -25 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

• Embassy Indian near Octave Auguste.
• a forwarding Roman E is sent by Auguste in Arabia for the maritime road check towards the India. Aden is shortly after occupied by Egyptian and Greek tradesmen.
• a regular maritime trade, using monsoons, is established between the Egypt and the India. Important exchanges are attested between India and Madagascar and later the coast of the Kenya and the Tanzania.

The close East

• the Galatie becomes Roman province.
• Agrippa founds the Roman colony of Héliopolis- Baalbek (Lebanon).
• the forwarding of Aelius Gallus in Arabia is lost in the desert.
• the king of Judaea Hérode Ier Large the, using Roman technology, launches out in great building work (end in -13).
• Famine in Judaea (- 25 and -24). The famines are related to the sabbatical year which returns every seven years and during which the Jewish Law prohibited to cultivate the ground. Hérode makes come from corn of Egypt, which is worth a renewal of popularity to him.

North Africa

• Beginning of the reign of Juba II, king of Maurétanie (fine in 23).
• Auguste which reorganizes the African possessions of Rome, creates a kingdom of Maurétanie including/understanding the north of the Morocco and the Algérie. It places Juba II there, the son of Juba Ier high in Rome, which marries Cléopâtre Séléné, girl of Antoine and Cléopâtre. Juba II transfers its capital to Iol Caesarea (Cherchell) where philosophers and artists from Rome, from Greece and Egypt meet.
• Juba II is a writer of Greek language eminent (its writings are lost). It has a sumptuous library.
• Juba II organizes a maritime forwarding which reaches the islands the Canaries.
• Juba II supports agriculture and the urbanization in Maurétanie.

Europe

• Auguste, after a partial victory over the Cantabres and the Astures (people Celtibère of the north of the Spain), falls ill with Tarragone and returns to Rome. Hardly returned, he learns the news from a rising caused by the brutality of the legates, which plunges the Spain in the guerilla (fine in -19).
• Foundation of Mérida, in Spain.
• Julie, girl of Auguste marries Marcellus.
• Campagne of Aulius Terentius Varro Murena against the Salted Val of Aoste.
• Foundation of Aoste ( Augusta Preatoria ).
• the Galatie becomes Roman Province.

• Triumphal arch of Aoste.
• Achévement of the the Pantheon of Clutched with Rome, inspired of the model alexandrine. Construction of the Thermes of Clutched and of the Basilique of Neptune.

Births

• Marcus Gavius Apicius, gastronome (approximate date)

Death