The world in 29 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

Zhu You took Liqiu and captured Qin Feng. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1上光武帝紀上建武5年)
Guangwu went to Fan, then crushed Dong Xian at Changlu. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1上光武帝紀上建武5年)
Wu Han took Tan and captured Liu Hong, then besieged Dong Xian and Pang Meng at Qu. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1上光武帝紀上建武5年)
Geng Gan and others crushed Zhang Bu at Linzi; when Guangwu visited Linzi and Ji, Zhang Bu beheaded Xiao Wu and surrendered, and the Qi region was pacified. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1上光武帝紀上建武5年)
Guangwu visited Lu and sent the Grand Minister of Works to sacrifice to Confucius. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1上光武帝紀上建武5年)

King Kanirajanutissa arrested sixty monks charged with treason and confined them on Ketiya Mountain. (Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka) 35.9-10)

He exiled his daughter-in-law Agrippina to the island of Pandateria. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Tiberius 53)
Livia (Julia Augusta) dies of old age (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 5.1)
Tiberius skips his mother's funeral, citing public duties, and explains himself by letter (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 5.2)