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For alternate uses, see Number 43.

Events

• The Roman conquest of Britain begins with the Battle of Medway.
• The Romans defeat Britons led by Caratacus
• The Romans found the cities of London, then known as Londinium, and Peterborough.
• The Romans begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.
• In Coptic Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Roman emperor Claudius is also a Roman Consul for a second year.
• Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri (probable date).
• Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.

Births

• Martial, Roman poet.

Deaths

• Togodumnus, King of the Catuvellauni.
• Claudia Julia, executed niece of Claudius and Messalina (or 44/45) (b. 5).