12 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (1)
Xiongnu's Rizhu King Bi proclaimed himself Southern Chanyu, and the Xiongnu split into northern and southern (he had earlier asked for protection at the Wuyuan pass). (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷1下 光武帝紀下 建武24年)
Korean Peninsula (1)
On the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month a boat with red sails and red flags came from the southwest sea; Princess Heo Hwang-ok of Ayuta country arrived, and on the first day of the eighth month she returned to the palace with King Suro. (Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) 紀異第二 駕洛國記)tradition
South Asia (1)
At the Tissa Tank festival games, his younger brother Yasalalakatissa killed his elder brother Chandamukha Siva and became king. (Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka) 35.49)
In Claudius's sixth year, the 800th anniversary of Rome's founding is grandly celebrated, a phoenix appears in Egypt, and a large island rises in the Aegean Sea. (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus Aur. Vict. Caes. 4.14)
Right after Messalina's death, he sat at the table and asked, 'Why does the empress not come?' (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Claudius 39)
Leading men of Gallia Comata demand seats in the Senate, and the matter is debated (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.23)
The emperor, citing ancestral precedent in the Senate, argues for admitting Gauls (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.24)
While Claudius is at Ostia, the catastrophe of Messalina and Silius unfolds (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 11.26)