__NOTOC__ AD 99 (Roman numerals, XCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Roman consul, Consulship of Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus, Palma and Quintus Sosius Senecio, Senecio (or, less frequently, year 852 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination AD 99 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 Trajan returns to Ancient Rome, Rome from an inspection of the Roman legions along the Rhine and Danube frontiers. * Emissaries of the Kushan Empire reach the Roman Empire. * Richimerus I fights a battle with a combined army of Romans and Gauls at Basana near Aachen. * 29 August - Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 581, recording the sale of a slave girl, is written.

By topic

Religion

* 23 November - Pope Evaristus succeeds Pope Clement I as the fifth pope according to Roman Catholic tradition.

Births

* Narcissus of Jerusalem, Christian bishop and saint (d. c. 216)

Deaths

* Pope Clement I, Clement I, pope of the Catholic Church

References

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