The world in 41 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

Yao Wu and Li Guang seized Wan; Ma Yuan and Duan Zhi attacked, defeated them in the ninth month, and beheaded Li Guang. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1下光武帝紀下建武17年)

Claudius returns his grandfather's kingdom to Agrippa, and Agrippa offers sacrifices at Jerusalem (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 19.277)

After Gaius's death, when the Jews of Alexandria take up arms again, Claudius confirms their rights by edict (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 19.279)

Gaius dies after reigning 3 years 8 months; Claudius is acclaimed in the camp, and Agrippa mediates with the Senate (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 2.206–208)
At Agrippa's banquet plea Gaius withdraws the plan to set up the statue in the Temple and writes to Petronius (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 18.289)
Chaerea and other officers of the guard assassinate Gaius during the games on the Palatine (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 19.18)
The army takes Claudius to the camp and acclaims him emperor, and the Senate yields through Agrippa's mediation (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 19.162)
Just after noon, while talking with boys, Chaerea struck him from behind with a sword, and the tribune Cornelius Sabinus and others stabbed him in the chest and killed him. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Caligula 58)
With conspirators barring his approach, he withdrew into a room called the Hermaeum and, at fifty, unexpectedly came to the throne. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Claudius 10)