The world in 62 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

After Festus's death and before Albinus arrives, the high priest Ananus has James stoned to death (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 20.200)
At night the Sicarii kidnap a scribe of the Temple governor and demand a prisoner exchange (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 20.208)
The plot to murder the exiled Plautus is carried out (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.59)
News of Corbulo's success and of Tigranes' accession to Armenia reaches Vologeses (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.1)
Monaeses rushes his troops forward, advancing toward Tigranocerta (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.4)
Paetus disregards the omens and crosses the Taurus to restore Armenia (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.8)
Corbulo closely guards the banks of the Euphrates and tries to build a bridge (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.9)
The two generals talk briefly; Corbulo complains that he missed the chance to end the war (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.17)

Burrus dies, of illness or of poison (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.51)
Nero divorces Octavia and prepares to marry Poppaea (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.60)
Octavia, twenty years old, is executed (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 14.64)
Vologeses fiercely attacks the surrounded Roman camp and fortresses (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.13)