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the Fifties | the Sixties | the Seventies | the Eighties | the Nineties

See also: List of the centuries, Roman numerals ---- The century begins on January 1st, 1 and finishes on December 31st, 100.

Events

  • the population of Rome exceeds the million inhabitants.
  • Important migrations throughout the world.
  • sects monothéistes which awaits the Messiah or which affirms that it came already pullulate, at least 42 indexed.
  • Writing of the Gospels by the faithful ones of Christ.

Africa

  • Migrations of the people Bantou.
  • In Ethiopia, until worms the neighborhoods of the Christian era, the inscriptions engraved on stone use dialects sabéens or purely consonant Minéens of southernmost Arabia, resulting from the writing phenician. Until the 3rd century, the writing evolves to almost cursive letters, to which come to stick small signs marking the vowels. The language also evolves/moves it, and the writing will receive the name of Guèze, of the name of one of the independent groups installed in Ethiopia, Aguèzat.
  • the island of Madagascar is populated Pygmies from Africa (mysterious Vazimba). At the beginning of the Christian era, of Indonésiens would have unloaded in the island after having skirted the Eastern coast of Africa. About the same time, these Indonésiens would have introduced Asian plants hitherto unknown into this area, the such Igname, the Banane and the Coconut.
  • At the beginning of, the Romans complete the conquest of the country of the Garamante S and settle in their capital Garama (Djerma).

America

  • Migrations of the people Arawaks towards the Antilles.
  • Western Culture of the Ipioutaks in Alaska (1-900). Disappearance of ceramics, the lamps, the stone plates and the equipment of hunting for the whale. Migration seasonal between the interior (winter) and the coasts of the Arctic Ocean (be) to drive out small marine mammals.
  • Culture of the Eskimo of the Pacific in the south of the Alaska (1-1600). Tools on plate of stone, basalt and bone. Stone oil lamps. Drive out with the marine mammals and fishings (salmon).
  • Period of the Basketmaker II in the south-west of North America (1-500). Hamlets gathering to eleven circular houses on the ground slightly inserted, built on cliffs dominating the river plains where corn is cultivated. The majority of the feeder plants are still collected
  • Émergence of complex cultures on the northern coast of the Pacific; craft industry worked out out of wood.

China

  • 9: After the usurpation of Wang Mang, the committed reforms lead to revolts.
  • 25 : Restoration of the Han by a descendant of the Liu family, Guangwudi.
  • 42 and 43: the rebellion of the Trung sisters is repressed by the general My Yuan.

Central Asia

  • the tradesman Macedonian Maès Titianos directly sends his agents Syria towards the China by the road of the Tarim.
  • Treasure of Begram, old Kapisa (Afghanistan) on the Silk route (- {{mini IVe}}), discovered in 1938 in two walled stores: lacquers of China, ivory plates, statues and trunks of India, alabaster vases, bronze statues, glassmaking and weight of beam balances of the Mediterranean basin.

Southeast Asia

  • With the Kampuchea, of at the 6th century, a kingdom indianized, the Funan, established on the delta and the middle price of the Mekong, dominates the south of Indo-China by its economic power and soldier. It maintains the political relations and cultural with the China and the India.
  • the west of the archipelago Indonesia N belongs to a network centered on Funan, of harbor city-States which trade with India and China. Boats with beams " indonésiens" come to trade on the east coast of Africa.
  • Buddhist Center of Peitkhano, in central Burma (of at the 5th century). The city, surrounded by a cooked brick wall opened by three doors, extends on 800 ha. One raised the vestiges there of more than one hundred structures of bricks: burials in ballot box, brick buildings used for the administration, the religion or rites, monastery similar to those of the south of India, surrounded by two stupas. The majority of the residences are in bamboos or wood.

India

  • Migrations of the people Kouchan S ( Kusãnã ) since the Central Asia, they seizes Gandhãra and Pañjãb and conquers the valley of Gange until Pãtaliputra.
  • Andhra (Sãtavahãna dynasty) establish their capacity in the north of Dekkan, around Pratisthãna ( Paithãn ).
  • Formation of the powerful kingdom Chola, in the extreme south of the territory.
  • extensive Systems of irrigation in Ceylon.
  • Composition of the Purâna (first century-5th century).

Europe

  • 43 : Beginning of the occupation of the south of British Isles by the Roman .
  • Statues of wood deposited in ex-voto in the sources of the Seine, vêtues of the typically Gallic cape with cap or torque traditional. The sources of Chamalières and those of the Seine are used as sanctuaries where hundreds of ex-votos carved out of wood are deposited, jewels, currencies, posterior for the majority with the Roman conquest. The Gallo-Romans perpetuate a worship which goes back to the Bronze Age (Tène).
  • the She-cats, established in Hesse, subject the Chérusques at the end of the century.
  • Age of Roman iron in Scandinavia (1-400). Germanic populations, like the Cimbres (Kimbri) of Himmerland (Denmark) and the Teutons (Teutones, come from Thy in Denmark), migrate towards the South. Danes, from Sweden of the South, settle in Denmark during the age of Roman iron.
    • the Scandinavians, by various intermediaries, tie intermittent commercial links with the Roman world (objects of Roman origin in the tombs). The exchanges also relate to slaves of the two sexes and leather. It is probable that the Clippings played a big role of relay by the Rhine, but there exist other routes by the the Danube and the Bohemia (Marcomans) or at the beginning of Gotland by the Elba, the Oder or the the Vistula. A way already leads to the Black Sea by the Russian rivers and lakes.
  • Finnish of Estonia are established in the south of the Finland.
  • Necropolis of Krankmårtenkögen in southernmost Lapland (1-200). Tombs with cremation marked by triangular stone alignments. Traces of sacrifices of animals.
  • According to Jordanes, historian goth of the 6th century, the Goths, originating in Sweden, cross the the Baltic to be installed on banks of the the Vistula. At the 3rd century, they migrate towards the south and one finds them in the estuary of the the Danube on the edges of the Black Sea.
  • Pline Old the evokes the people of the Vénètes which populate the valley of the Vistula “to the gulf of Vénètes” (the Baltic). Tacite hesitates if they should be regarded as Germains or Sarmates, because their habits resemble those of these two people.
  • Pline Old the (23 - 79) is informed of a road of the Ambre, on the basis of Carnutum on the the Danube and leading to the the Baltic. He tells that Néron sent a Roman knight “to the country of succin” and that this last which been able to return to Rome.

Rome

  • Dynasty of Flaviens (69/96).

Oceania

  • Migrations of the Polynesian people through Oceania.
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The Middle East (Judaea)

  • At the century, the population of Judaea was made up as a majority of inhabitants of Greek origin, for a third of Jews, and some groups of Arabs and Nabatéens.

  • a first meeting of the apostles and old, called Council of Jerusalem, took place towards 50 about the observance of the traditional rules of the Judaïsme.

  • Drafting of the Didachè, doctrines of the twelve apostles (between 60 and 90, fine beginning or beginning 2nd century?)

  • Thereafter, this news Religion was propagated with much more force towards Rome and the Europe that in Judaea even, and separated from the Judaïsme from which it resulted.

  • During this century, the situation became difficult; the Roman governors of the Judaea were despots and the Juif S were thorough with the revolt. Jewish S fanatics, the Zealoies, started a violent insurrection in 66, which was crushed in 70 by the emperor Vespasien then by his/her son Titus. Jerusalem was taken again and the destroyed Temple of Jerusalem. The catch of the Fortress of Massada in 74 mark end of this First war judéo-Roman.

  • After the destruction of the Second Temple (70 EC.), the Priest S and the Sadducéen S were eliminated. Yohanan Ben Zakkaï obtained the transfer of the Sanhédrin to Yavné, where the Concile was held of Yavné (between 90 and 100 EC.). The Rabbin S Pharisien S remained alone in string, and their vision of the Judaïsme was gradually structured as from the 2nd century, in the form of the rabbinical Judaïsme.

Significant characters

Political leaders

Scientists

  • Pline Old the (23 - 79), naturalist,

  • Cai Lun (Ca 50 - Ca 121), Chinese Minister for the Agriculture, codifies art to manufacture Papier.

Philosophers

  • Sénèque (-4 - 65), tutor and adviser of Néron, Greek philosopher of the school Stoical,

  • Épictète (50 - 130), Greek philosopher of the school Stoical,

Historians

Monk

  • Paul de Tarse (Ca 10, Ca 65), central figure of the primitive Christianity.

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