The world in 43 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

Yao Wu, Shan Chen and Fu Zhen seized Yuanwu; Zang Gong besieged it, took it in the fourth month and killed them. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1下光武帝紀下建武19年)
Guangwu held a banquet at the official lodge of Nandun in Runan and exempted Nandun from land tax for one more year. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1下光武帝紀下建武19年)

In the first month King Suro went to Sindap-pyeong to choose a capital, and built a great wall of 1,500 bo and a palace. (Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) 紀異第二駕洛國記) tradition

Queen Trưng and her sister Trưng Nhị fought the Han army, but being isolated, their strongholds all fell. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 外紀卷之三「癸卯四年〔漢建武十九年〕春正月，」)
Ma Yuan crushed Jiaozhi, beheaded Zheng Ce and others, and then forced Tu Yang and others of Jiuzhen to surrender. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1下光武帝紀下建武19年)

Agrippa builds a theater, amphitheater and baths for Berytus (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 19.335)

Claudius attacks the western edge of Britain, the only place he went to in person, sailing from Ostia; the rest he left to his generals. (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus Aur. Vict. Caes. 4.2)

He traveled by land from Massilia to Gesoriacum. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Claudius 17)
From Gesoriacum he crossed over to Britain. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Claudius 17)
After crossing to Britain, part of the island surrendered (summary of chapter 17). (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Claudius 17)
Under Claudius he commanded a legion in Germany, moved to Britain, fought thirty battles under Plautius and Claudius, and received triumphal decorations. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Vespasian 4)

Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.