AD 29 (
XXIX) was a
common year starting on Saturday
A common year starting on Saturday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Saturday, 1 January, and ends on Saturday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is B. The current year, 2022, is a common year starting on Saturd ...
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the
Consulship of
Geminus and
Geminus (or, less frequently, year 782 ''
Ab urbe condita
''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...
''). The denomination AD 29 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
*
Agrippina the Elder is exiled to the island of
Pandataria
Ventotene (; locally ; la, Pandataria or , from grc, Πανδατερία, Pandatería, or ) is one of the Pontine Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Gaeta right at the border between Lazio and Campania, Italy. The municipality of ...
, and her sons (except
Caligula
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August 12 – 24 January 41), better known by his nickname Caligula (), was the third Roman emperor, ruling from 37 until his assassination in 41. He was the son of the popular Roman general Germanicu ...
) are imprisoned by
Lucius Aelius Sejanus
Lucius Aelius Sejanus (c. 20 BC – 18 October AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (), was a Roman soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Of the Equites class by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Praetorian Guar ...
.
*
Aulus Plautius, later military leader of the invasion of
Britain under Emperor
Claudius
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Nero Claudius Drusus, Drusu ...
, becomes
suffect consul
A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...
alongside
Lucius Nonius Asprenas.
By topic
Religion
* According to the
Gospel of Luke (Luke 3:1-2), the ministries of
John the Baptist and
Jesus probably began in this year.
[ Colin Humphreys, ''The Mystery of the Last Supper'' Cambridge University Press 2011 , page 65] Jesus baptized by
John the Baptist.
*
Jesus executed according to
Roman Catholic tradition.
Deaths
*
Gaius Fufius Geminus, Roman
plebeian tribune and consul
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Julia the Younger
Vipsania Julia Agrippina (19 BC – c. AD 29) nicknamed Julia Minor (Classical Latin: IVLIA•MINOR) and called Julia the Younger by modern historians, was a Roman noblewoman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She was emperor Augustus' first grandda ...
, granddaughter of
Augustus (b.
19 BC
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Year 19 BC was either a common year starting on Thursday, Common year starting on Friday, Friday or Common year starting on Saturday, Saturday or a leap year starting on Thursday or Leap year starting on Friday, Friday (link will displ ...
)
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Livia
Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – 28 September AD 29) was a Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Roman emperor, Emperor Augustus Caesar. She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal Adoption in ancient Rome, adoption into the J ...
, wife of Augustus and mother of
Tiberius (b.
58 BC
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Year 58 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Gabinius (or, less frequently, year 696 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 58 BC for this year has been us ...
)
*
Jesus. (b.
5? BC)
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