The world in 59 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

Emperor Ming toured west, sacrificed at the ancestral temple in Chang'an, and sacrificed at the eleven mausoleums. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷2 顯宗孝明帝紀永平2年)

At Caesarea Jews and Syrians clash over citizenship rights (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 20.173)

Agrippina withdraws to her gardens and her estates at Tusculum and Antium (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.3)
At Baiae, Nero celebrates the five-day Minerva festival and summons his mother (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.4)
Under a starry sky at sea, the ship collapses strangely — a plan to harm Agrippina (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.5)
Agrippina is killed at the Villa of Baulus, and cremated that same night (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.9)
The people of Nuceria and Pompeii clash bloodily at a gladiator show (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.17)