AD 50

This article is about the year 50.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s  30s  40s  – 50s –  60s  70s  80s
Years:	47 48 49 – 50 – 51 52 53

AD 50 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

2021 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2021 MMXXI
Ab urbe condita	2774
Armenian calendar	1470 ԹՎ ՌՆՀ
Assyrian calendar	6771
Bahá'í calendar	177–178
Bengali calendar	1428
Berber calendar	2971
British Regnal year	69 Eliz. 2 – 70 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2565
Burmese calendar	1383
Byzantine calendar	7529–7530
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4717 or 4657     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4718 or 4658
Coptic calendar	1737–1738
Discordian calendar	3187
Ethiopian calendar	2013–2014
Hebrew calendar	5781–5782
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2077–2078
- Shaka Samvat	1943–1944
- Kali Yuga	5122–5123
Holocene calendar	12021
Igbo calendar	1021–1022
Iranian calendar	1399–1400
Islamic calendar	1442–1443
Japanese calendar	Heisei 33 (平成３３年)
Juche calendar	110
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4354
Minguo calendar	ROC 110 民國110年
Thai solar calendar	2564
Unix time	1609459200–1640995199

The world in 50

AD 50 (L) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known in Europe as the Year of the Consulship of Vetus and Nerullinus (or, less frequently, year 803 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 50 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Cologne is raised to the status of a city.
• Romans learn the use of soap from the Gauls.
• Utrecht is founded, and a Roman fortification (castellum) is constructed at the Rhine border in the present-day Netherlands.
• Claudius adopts Nero.
• In Judea a Roman soldier seizes and burns a Torah-scroll. Procurator Cumanus has the culprit beheaded, calming down the Jews and delaying for two decades the outbreak of their revolt.
• In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula begins his campaign against the recalcitrant Silures of south Wales, who are led by the former Catuvellaunian prince Caratacus. London (Londinium), Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum), Tripontium (near modern Rugby) and the fort of Manduessedum (near modern Atherstone) are founded (approximate date).
• Roman emperor Claudius appoints Agrippa II governor of Chalcis.
• Romans build a wooden bridge across the Thames in the London area.

Asia

• The Yuezhi tribes are united under the Kushan leader Kujula Kadphises, thus creating the Kushan Empire in Afghanistan and northern India. (approximate date)

America

San Bartolo pyramid is completed around this time.

By topic

Religion

• Christianity is introduced throughout Nubia by a high official of Queen Judith.
• The Epistle to the Romans is written (approximate date).
• The Apostles hold the Council of Jerusalem (approximate date).

Arts and sciences

• Hero of Alexandria invents a steam turbine (possible date).
• Pamphilus of Alexandria writes a poetic lexicon.
• Pedanius Dioscorides describes the medical applications of plants in De Materia Medica.
• Diogenes, the Greek explorer, discovers the African Great Lakes.
• The distinction between chronic maladies and acute illnesses is made by Thessalos.

Births

• Cai Lun, Chinese inventor of paper and the papermaking process (d. 121)

Deaths

• Abgarus of Edessa, king of Osroene
• Aulus Cornelius Celsus, author of De Medicina (approximate date) (b. c. 25 BC)
• Gamaliel the Elder, the Nasi of the Jewish people in Babylonia
• Phaedrus, Roman fabulist (b. c. 15 BC)
• Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher (b. c. 20 BC)

References

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