AD 52

This article is about the year 52.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s  30s  40s  – 50s –  60s  70s  80s
Years:	49 50 51 – 52 – 53 54 55

AD 52 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

AD 52 (LII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Otho (or, less frequently, year 805 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 52 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

• Emperor Claudius attempts to control the Fucine Lake by digging a 5.6 km tunnel through Monte Salviano, requiring 30,000 workers and eleven years.
• In Rome a law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves.
• Ananias, a high priest in Jerusalem, is sent to Rome after being accused of violence.
• Barea Soranus is consul suffectus in Rome.
• Pliny the Elder writes his account of the German wars.
• Tiridates I, brother of Vologases I, comes to power in Armenia as an adversary of the Romans.
• In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula dies while campaigning against the Silures of south Wales. Following his death, the Roman Second Legion are heavily defeated by the Silures. His replacement is Aulus Didius Gallus, who quells the rebellion and consolidates the gains the Romans have so far made, but does not seek new ones.
• Emperor Trajan born

China

• The Yuejue Shu, the first known gazetteer of China, is written during the Han Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• Saint Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, is believed to have landed in Kodungallur, India to preach the Gospel; the Marthoma Church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church the Indian Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East claim descent from him.

Deaths

• Publius Ostorius Scapula, Roman governor of Britain
• Guo Shengtong

References

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