59

This article is about the year 59. For the number, see 59 (number). For other uses, see 59 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s  30s  40s  – 50s –  60s  70s  80s
Years:	56 57 58 – 59 – 60 61 62

59 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

59 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	59 LIX
Ab urbe condita	812
Assyrian calendar	4809
Bengali calendar	−534
Berber calendar	1009
Buddhist calendar	603
Burmese calendar	−579
Byzantine calendar	5567–5568
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2755 or 2695     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2756 or 2696
Coptic calendar	−225 – −224
Discordian calendar	1225
Ethiopian calendar	51–52
Hebrew calendar	3819–3820
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	115–116
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3160–3161
Holocene calendar	10059
Iranian calendar	563 BP – 562 BP
Islamic calendar	580 BH – 579 BH
Julian calendar	59 LIX
Korean calendar	2392
Minguo calendar	1853 before ROC 民前1853年
Seleucid era	370/371 AG
Thai solar calendar	601–602

Year 59 (LIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Capito of Apronianus and Capito (or, less frequently, year 812 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 59 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Nero orders the murder of his mother Julia Augusta Agrippina. He tries to kill her through a planned shipwreck, but when she survives has her executed and frames it as a suicide.
• Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia. He installs Tigranes VI, a Cappadocian prince, as ruler of Armenia. For the next four years, a cohort from Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis is stationed in the capital as bodyguard to the king, supported by fifteen hundred auxiliaries.
• Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus retires from the Roman Senate.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• In the Satyricon, Petronius pokes fun at Roman immorality.

Religion

• Paul the Apostle pleads his case and testifies of Christianity before King Agrippa II of the Herodians, who responds "You almost persuade me to be a Christian."

Deaths

• March 19/23 – Julia Augusta Agrippina, mother of Nero (killed by his order) (b. 15 or 16)
• Domitius Afer, Roman orator