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95 CE

Domitian executes senators out of paranoiac fears that they are plotting to kill him. In Rome a severe form of malaria appears in the farm districts and will continue for the next 500 years, taking out of cultivation the fertile land of the Campagna, whose market gardens supply the city with fresh products. The fever drives small groups of farmers into the crowded city, bringing the malaria with them, and lowers Rome's live-birth rate while rates elsewhere in the empire are rising. The Roman consul Manius Acilius Glabrio is ordered by Domitian to descend into the arena of the Colosseum to fight a lion. After he kills the animal, Domitian banishes and puts him to death.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Emperor Domitian and Titus Flavius Clemens become Roman Consuls.source

Religion & Belief

  • The Book of Revelation is written (approximate date).source
  • Possible date for the writing of the First Epistle of Peter.source

Health & Medicine

  • In Rome a severe form of malaria appears in the farm districts and will continue for the next 500 years, taking out of cultivation the fertile land of the Campagna, whose market gardens supply the city with fresh products. The fever drives small groups of farmers into the crowded city, bringing the malaria with them, and lowers Rome's live-birth rate while rates elsewhere in the empire are rising.source

Crime & Justice

  • Domitian executes senators out of paranoiac fears that they are plotting to kill him.source
  • The Roman consul Manius Acilius Glabrio is ordered by Domitian to descend into the arena of the Colosseum to fight a lion. After he kills the animal, Domitian banishes and puts him to death.source

Births

  • Appian of Alexandria, Greek historian and writer (d. 165)source

Deaths

  • Epaphroditus, Roman freedman of Nero (executed)source
  • Avilius of Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandriasource
  • Manius Acilius Glabrio, Roman politician (executed)source
  • Flavius Scorpus, Roman charioteer (b. c. AD 68)source