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For alternate uses, see Number 40.

Years: 35 36 37 38 39 - 40 - 41 42 43 44 45

Decades: 10s 20s 30s - 40s - 50s 60s 70s

Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century

Events

• Christianity comes to Egypt as a church is founded in Alexandria. Mark the Evangelist founds the Coptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.
• Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain.
• German tribe Quadi begin settling in today Moravia and Slovakia.
• Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.

Births

• Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
• Frontinus, Roman general and military author
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
• July 13 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain

Deaths

• Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)