The world in 47 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

China (1)

• The Wuling Man rebelled; Liu Shang fought at Yuanshui, but his army was routed and destroyed. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1下 光武帝紀下 建武23年)

West Asia (1)

• Mithridates, imprisoned by Gaius, returns to the kingdom of Armenia (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.8)

Southern Europe (2)

• Messalina sets her sights on the Lucullan gardens and on Valerius Asiaticus, twice consul (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.1)
• The secular games are held, 800 years after the founding of Rome and the first in sixty-four years since Augustus (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.11)

Western Europe (4)

• The Cherusci, having lost their nobles in civil war, ask Rome for a king, and Italicus is chosen (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.16)
• After Sacinius' death, the Chauci raid Lower Germany on their way to Corbulo (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.18)
• Fear spreads; the Frisii submit, and the soldiers' morale rises (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.19)
• Claudius' letter ordering withdrawal arrives at Corbulo (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.20)

Same events recorded in this year

• Rome (48) — the same event in Aurelius Victor and Tacitus, Annals and Histories

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