The world in 65 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

The post of General of Daoliao was created for the first time and stationed at Manbai in Wuyuan. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷2 顯宗孝明帝紀永平8年)

When Cestius Gallus comes to Jerusalem around the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the crowd complains of Florus's tyranny (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 2.280–283)

Caesellius Bassus of Carthage deceives Nero by promising the discovery of treasure (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 16.1)

In one autumn, a plague in which thirty thousand deaths were recorded in the register of the temple of Libitina. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Nero 39)
In the consulship year of Nerva and Vestinus, Piso's conspiracy spreads (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.48)
Fearing discovery, they resolve to hurry the assassination at Piso's villa at Baiae (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.52)
Milichus knocks at the door of the Sergian garden, intending to make a serious denunciation (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.55)
Seneca asks for writing tablets to draft his will, but is refused (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 15.62)
Right after the games, Poppaea, heavily pregnant, is kicked to death by Nero (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 16.6)
Storms and plague mark this wicked year (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 16.13)