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( 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries)The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 99.
1 Events
- Beginning of Christianity
- Spread of the Roman Empire
- Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
- Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
- Buddhist monks in Sri LankaThe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon before 1972) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known in ancient times as Lanka Lankadweepa (meaning "Resplendent Land" in Sanskrit), Taprobane an first write down BuddhaBuddha ( Sanskrit, Pali, others: literally Awakened One Enlightened One from the Sanskrit: "√budh", to awaken can refer to the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama or to anyone who has attained the same depth and quality of enlightenment. Buddhism's teachings, creating the PaliPli is a middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. It is most famous as the language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the Pli Canon or in Pli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. Pli has been written canon
- BuddhismTian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of Siddhrtha Gautama ( Sanskrit; in Pli, Siddhattha Gotama , who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BCE. reaches ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute
2 Significant persons
- Jesus Christ
- Saint Paul of TarsusPaul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul the Apostle (c. 66) is considered by many Christians to be the most important disciple of Jesus, and next to Jesus the most important figure in the development of Christianity. Paul is recognized by
- Pliny the ElderGaius Plinius Secundus ( 23 79) better known as Pliny the Elder was an ancient author and scientist of some importance who wrote Naturalis Historia''. He was the son of a Roman eques by the daughter of the senator Gaius Caecilius of Novum Comum. He was bo
- Tiberius
- Tacitus
- Seneca
- Josephus
- Nero
- Titus
- Boudicca
- Arminius
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