The world in 19 AD — what happened that year

13 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

The widespread view is that he was removed by Tiberius's stratagem and Piso's hand; Piso was sentenced to death at Rome. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Caligula 2)
Bonones, exiled to Cilicia, bribes his guards and tries to flee to Armenia, but dies (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.68)
Germanicus returns and finds all his orders reversed, and clashes with Piso (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.69)
Germanicus, as his illness worsens, leaves his final words to the friends at his side (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.71)
Germanicus' funeral; his praises and virtues are remembered (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.73)
Agrippina boards ship with Germanicus' ashes and children (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.75)
Piso's party sails along the coasts of Lycia and Pamphylia and meets Agrippina's fleet (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.79)
Piso seizes the Cilician fortress of Celenderis (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.80)
Piso stands before the walls and calls to his soldiers, but is besieged (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.81)

In the year of the consulship, Germanicus sets out for Egypt to see the ancient monuments (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.59)
Setting out from Canopus, he sails up the Nile (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.60)
He tours Egypt's marvels, the Colossus of Memnon and the pyramids (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 2.61)

He prohibited foreign religions and Egyptian and Jewish rites, had garments and sacred vessels burned, and sent young Jews to provinces of endemic disease. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Tiberius 36)