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Year 70 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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[edit] By place

[edit] Roman Empire

• The building of the Colosseum starts (approximate date).
• Frontinus is praetor of Rome.
• Pliny the Elder serves as procurator in Gallia Narbonensis.
• June 5 — Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
• August 4 — Roman General and future Emperor Titus destroys the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem during the Siege of Jerusalem. Roman troops are stationed in Jerusalem and abolish the Jewish high priesthood and Sanhedrin. This becomes known as the Fall of Jerusalem, a conclusive event in the First Jewish-Roman War. Following this event, the Jewish religious leadership moves from Jerusalem to Jamnia (present day Yavne), and this date is mourned annually as the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av.
• Neapolis (present day Nablus) is founded in Iudaea Province.
• Roman legions V Alaudae and XV Primigenia are destroyed during the Batavian rebellion. Later, Quintus Petillius Cerialis puts down the Batavian rebellion of Gaius Julius Civilis.
• Roman legions I Germanica and IIII Macedonica are disbanded; II Audiutrix is created.
• Later Roman Emperor Domitian marries Domitia Longina.
• Romans make a punitive expedition against the Garamantes - they are forced to have an official relationship with the Empire.
• Annexation of the island of Samothrace by the Roman Empire under Vespasian.

[edit] Asia

• India sees the end of the Hellenistic dynasties.

[edit] Africa

• Expedition by the Roman Septimius Flaccus to southern Egypt. He probably reaches Sudan.
• Ze-Hakèlé (Zoscales in Greek) becomes king of Aksum.

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[edit] Religion

• Avignon becomes the seat of a bishopric.
• Members of The Oneida Community, a now non-existent religious group formed in the Nineteenth Century, believed this was the year Jesus Christ returned.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Hero of Alexandria (approximate date)