60S

:''Note: Sometimes the ''60s' is used as shorthand for the 1960s, the 1860s, or other such decades in various centuries''

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Events and Trends

Significant people

Events and Trends

★ Rebellion in Roman Britain led by Boudica (60 or 61)

★ Great fire of Rome, 64

★ Great Jewish Revolt against Roman occupation begins (66–73)

★ The suicide of Roman Emperor Nero leaves the throne vacant. Several candidates for the throne emerge resulting in a year of civil war known as the Year of the four emperors (68–69).

★ Batavian rebellion in the Roman province of Germania Inferior (69–70).

★ The Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke are being written.

Significant people

★ Nero, Roman Emperor (54–68)

★ Servius Sulpicius Galba, Roman Emperor (68–69)

★ Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (69)

★ Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor (69)

★ Titus Flavius Vespasianus, Roman Emperor (Vespasian, 69–79)

★ Paul of Tarsus, Christian evangelist

★ Boudicca, rebellious British queen

★ Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman general

★ Julius Civilis, leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans