60

This page is about the year 60. For the actual number, see sixty.

60 is a year in the 1st century.

AD 60 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 60 LX
Ab urbe condita	813
Assyrian calendar	4810
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−533
Berber calendar	1010
Buddhist calendar	604
Burmese calendar	−578
Byzantine calendar	5568–5569
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 2756 or 2696     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2757 or 2697
Coptic calendar	−224 – −223
Discordian calendar	1226
Ethiopian calendar	52–53
Hebrew calendar	3820–3821
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	116–117
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3160–3161
Holocene calendar	10060
Iranian calendar	562 BP – 561 BP
Islamic calendar	579 BH – 578 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 60 LX
Korean calendar	2393
Minguo calendar	1852 before ROC 民前1852年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1408
Seleucid era	371/372 AG
Thai solar calendar	602–603
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 186 or −195 or −967     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 187 or −194 or −966

Events

Roman Empire

• Romans build the first London Bridge.
• Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, made a will. He left his kingdom to his two daughters and emperor Nero.
• The Roman army annexed East Anglia.
• Boudica, widow of Prasutagus, is flogged and then forced to witness the public rape of her daughters.
• Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, governor of Britannia, leads a campaign on the island of Mona (Anglesey).
• Boudica joins the British Celtic tribes in revolt, along with the Cornovii, Durotriges and Trinovantes.
• The rebels defeat Legio IX Hispana and destroyed the capital Camulodunum (modern Colchester).
• Boudica sacks Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans). Thousands of civilians are killed.
• Paulinus returns and reorganises his army. The Romans defeat Boudica's alliance, and slaughter the defeated enemy.
• Nero has people explore the historical city Meroë (Sudan).
• The Rhoxolani are defeated on the Danube by the Romans.
• Vitellius is (possibly) proconsul of Africa.
• Herod Agrippa II rules the northeast of Judea.

By topic

Religion

• The First Epistle of Peter, if by Saint Peter, is probably written between this year and c. 64.
• Paul of Tarsus goes to Rome. He is shipwrecked at Malta. He stays for three months and converts Publius, the first Bishop of Malta.

Art and science

• Hero of Alexandria writes Metrica, Mechanics, and Pneumatics.
• 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.

Deaths

• Domitius Afer, Roman orator