st century

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

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

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

ca:Segle I cs:1. století da:1. århundrede de:1. Jahrhundert et:1. sajand es:Siglo I eo:1-a jarcento fr:Ier siècle fy:1e ieu ko:1세기 io:1ma yar-cento it:I secolo lb:1. Joerhonnert nl:1e eeuw ja:1世紀 no:1. århundre pl:I wiek ro:Secolul I ru:I век sl:1. stoletje fi:Ensimmäinen vuosisata sv:000-talet (sekel) uk:1 століття zh:1世纪

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