(1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries)

The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 99.

Contents

1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

Events

• Beginning of Christianity
• Spread of the Roman Empire
• Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
• Pompeii destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
• Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon
• Buddhism reaches China

Significant persons

• Jesus Christ
• Saint Paul of Tarsus
• Pliny the Elder
• Tacitus
• Seneca
• Josephus
• Nero
• Titus
• Boudicca

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• paper invented in China
• Codex, the first form of the modern book, appears in the Roman empire
• Year 78 - the beginning of the Saka Era South Asian calendar system.

Decades and years

0s BC	9 BC	8 BC	7 BC	6 BC	5 BC	4 BC	3 BC	2 BC	1 BC
0s		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10s	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20s	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30s	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39
40s	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49
50s	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59
60s	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69
70s	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79
80s	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89
90s	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99
100s	100	101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109