43

Alternate uses, see Number 43

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Years: 38 39 40 41 42 - 43 - 44 45 46 47 48

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• The Roman conquest of Britain begins.
• The Romans defeat Britons led by Caratacus
• The Romans found the cities of London, then known as Londinium, and Peterborough.
• The Romans begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.
• In Coptic Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Roman emperor Claudius is also a Roman Consul for a second year.
• Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri (probable date).
• Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.