AD 56 (LVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman...

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Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (/ˈtæsɪtəs/ TAS-it-əs, Latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. AD 56 – c. 120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded...

Julia Agrippina (6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59), also referred to as Agrippina the Younger, was Roman empress from AD 49 to 54, the fourth wife and...

proclaims himself Emperor Guangwu of Han, starting the Jianwu era (until AD 56). November 27 – Luoyang becomes the capital of the Houhan or Eastern Han...

Roman emperor (b. AD 53) Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian (b. AD 56) Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus, Roman general in Judea (b. AD 70) Hermione of...

According to Tacitus (AD 56–117) Dacians bordered Germania in the south-east, while Sarmatians bordered it in the east. In the 1st century AD, the Iazyges settled...

place it in either AD 56 or 57. His two main works, the Annals and the Histories, covered the history of the empire between AD 14 and AD 96. However, much...

I (535–536 AD) 55. St. Menas (536–552 AD) 56. St. Eutychius (552–565 AD) 57. St. John III Scholasticus (565–577 AD) Eutychius (577–582 AD), restored 58...