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19 is a year in the 1st century.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is deposed by Catualda. This ended the threat to the Romans from German tribes until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Rome places them under its protection.
- Julius Caesar Germanicus (33), Roman commandant of the Rhine legions and the best loved of Roman princes, died of poisoning. On his deathbed he accused Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.
- Tiberius expels the Egyptians from Rome, and deports 4,000 Jews from Sicily.
- Agrippina the Elder accuses Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, governor of Syria, of having assassinated her husband Germanicus in Antioch. Piso commits suicide in Rome
- A Triumphal Arch is built for Germanicus in Saintes.
- Last year (6th) of Tianfeng era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty.
- Gondophares becomes king of the Saces.
[edit] Births
- Tiberius Gemellus grandson of Tiberius.
[edit] Deaths
- Germanicus, Roman general
- Vonones I of Parthia
