19 (XIX)
was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 19th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 1st millennium, the 19th year of the 1st century, and the 10th and last year of the 10s decade. As of the start of 19, the Gregorian calendar was
2 days behind the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
Roman Empire
- Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is deposed by Catualda. This ended the threat to the Romans from German tribes until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Rome places them under its protection.
- Julius Caesar Germanicus (33), Roman commandant of the Rhine legions and the best loved of Roman princes, died of poisoning. On his deathbed he accused Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.
- Tiberius expels the Egyptians from Rome, and deports 4,000 Jews from Sicily.
- Agrippina the Elder accuses Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, governor of Syria, of assassinating her husband Germanicus in Antioch. Piso commits suicide in Rome.
- A Triumphal Arch is built for Germanicus in Saintes.
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