The world in 72 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

China (1)

• Emperor Ming visited Confucius's old house, sacrificed to Confucius and his seventy-two disciples, and discussed the classics with the princes. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷2 顯宗孝明帝紀 永平15年)

West Asia (5)

• Lucilius Bassus comes as governor of Judea and attacks the fortress of Machaerus (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 7.163–170)
• Bassus besieges the fortress by building a ramp to fill the valley east of it (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 7.190–209)
• Caesar orders Bassus and the governor Liberius Maximus to sell all the land of Judea and not to found a new city (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 7.216–218)
• Suspected of breaking with Rome, Antiochus of Commagene sees Samosata taken by Paetus (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 7.230–237)
• Paetus orders Antiochus, who has reached Tarsus, to be bound and sent to Rome (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 7.238–243)

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