1st century

(1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries) The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 99.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

Events

\n* Beginning of Christianity\n* Spread of the Roman Empire\n* Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh \n* Pompeii destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79\n* Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon\n* Buddhism reaches China

Significant persons

\n* Jesus Christ\n* Saint Paul of Tarsus\n* Pliny the Elder\n* Tacitus\n* Seneca\n* Josephus\n* Nero\n* Titus\n* Boudicca

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

\n* paper invented in China\n* Codex, the first form of the modern book, appears in the Roman empire

Decades and years

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