AD 61

AD 61 (LXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Turpilianus and Caesennius (or, less frequently, year 814 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 61 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC 1st century 2nd century
Decades:	40s 50s 60s 70s 80s
Years:	58 59 60 AD 61 62 63 64

AD 61 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 61 LXI
Ab urbe condita	814
Assyrian calendar	4811
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−532
Berber calendar	1011
Buddhist calendar	605
Burmese calendar	−577
Byzantine calendar	5569–5570
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2757 or 2697     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2758 or 2698
Coptic calendar	−223 – −222
Discordian calendar	1227
Ethiopian calendar	53–54
Hebrew calendar	3821–3822
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	117–118
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3161–3162
Holocene calendar	10061
Iranian calendar	561 BP – 560 BP
Islamic calendar	578 BH – 577 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 61 LXI
Korean calendar	2394
Minguo calendar	1851 before ROC 民前1851年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1407
Seleucid era	372/373 AG
Thai solar calendar	603–604
Tibetan calendar	阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 187 or −194 or −966     — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 188 or −193 or −965

Events

Roman Empire

• Publius Petronius Turpilianus and Lucius Caesennius Paetus become Roman consuls.
• Galba becomes governor of Hispania Tarraconensis.
• The following events in Roman Britain (Britannia) take place in AD 60 or 61:
  • Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman governor of Britain, captures the island of Mona (Anglesey), the last stronghold of the Druids.[1][2]
  • Prasutagus, king of the Iceni (modern East Anglia), dies leaving a will which passes his kingdom to his two daughters and the Roman Empire. The Roman army however annexes the kingdom as if conquered, depriving the nobles of their hereditary lands and plundering the land. The king's widow, Boudica, is flogged and forced to watch their daughters publicly raped.[3] Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, call in their loans.[4]
  • Boudica leads a rebellion of the Iceni against Roman rule[5] in alliance with the Trinovantes, Cornovii, Durotriges and Celtic Britons. The Iceni and Trinovantes first destroy the Roman capital Camulodunum (Colchester), wipe out the infantry of the Legio IX Hispana (commanded by Quintus Petillius Cerialis) and go on to burn Londinium (London) (probably destroying London Bridge) and Verulamium (St Albans), in all cases massacring the inhabitants in their thousands.
  • Paulinus defeats the rebels at the Battle of Watling Street using a flying wedge formation, and imposes wide-ranging punishments on native Britons, but is removed from office after an enquiry instituted by Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus (appointed procurator 61)[1] and the Romanisation of Britain continues. Boudica either poisons herself[6] or falls sick and dies.[7]

Births

• Pliny the Younger, Roman author and statesman (d. c. 113)[8]

Deaths

• Barnabas, Cypriot Jew and bishop of Milan (approximate date)
• Boudica, British queen of the Iceni tribe (approximate date)
• Lucius Pedanius Secundus, Roman politician and prefect
• Ma Wu, Chinese general of the Eastern Han Dynasty
• Publius Memmius Regulus, Roman politician

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 16–20. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Tacitus, Annals 14.30.
3. Tacitus, Annals 14.31.
4. Cassius Dio, Roman History 62.2.
5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 47. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
6. Tacitus, Annals.
7. Cassius Dio, Roman History.
8. Lawson, Russell M.; Services, Abc-Clio Information (2004). Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 193. ISBN 9781851095346.