43

This article is about the year 43. For the number, see 43 (number). For other uses, see 43 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s  20s  30s  – 40s –  50s  60s  70s
Years:	40 41 42 – 43 – 44 45 46

43 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

43 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	43 XLIII
Ab urbe condita	796
Assyrian calendar	4793
Bengali calendar	−550
Berber calendar	993
Buddhist calendar	587
Burmese calendar	−595
Byzantine calendar	5551–5552
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2739 or 2679     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2740 or 2680
Coptic calendar	−241 – −240
Discordian calendar	1209
Ethiopian calendar	35–36
Hebrew calendar	3803–3804
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	99–100
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3144–3145
Holocene calendar	10043
Iranian calendar	579 BP – 578 BP
Islamic calendar	597 BH – 596 BH
Julian calendar	43 XLIII
Korean calendar	2376
Minguo calendar	1869 before ROC 民前1869年
Seleucid era	354/355 AG
Thai solar calendar	585–586

Year 43 (XLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vitellius (or, less frequently, year 796 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 43 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

Britain

• The Roman conquest of Britain begins. Aulus Plautius lands with four legions (20,000 men) and the same number of auxiliaries at Rutupiae (modern Richborough, on the east coast of Kent) and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. He halts at the Thames and sends for emperor Claudius, who leads the march on Camulodunum. Eleven British kings, probably including those of the Iceni and Brigantes, submit without a fight. Meanwhile, the future emperor Vespasian begins to subdue the south-west. The Romans begin to construct forts, such as at Peterborough, and a road that later becomes Ermine Street.
• The Romans capture a Brythonic settlement at Kent, and rename it Durovernum Cantiacorum (modern Canterbury). They establish a Roman fort to guard the crossing of the River Stour.
• Roman London (Londinium) was established

Roman Empire

• Consuls are the emperor Claudius (his second consulship as emperor, third in total) and Lucius Vitellius.
• Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.
• The Romans now have complete control of the Mediterranean.

Asia

• Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.
• The warrior Trung Sisters commit suicide after their resistance is defeated at Nam Viet in Vietnam.
• Vietnam is designated a province of China.
• Vardanes I of Parthia forces the city of Seleucia on the Tigris to surrender.

By topic

Religion

• In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Pope of Alexandria, thus establishing the Christian Church in Africa.

Arts and sciences

• Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri (probable date).

Births

• Martial, Roman poet (d. 102/104)

Deaths

• Togodumnus, King of the Catuvellauni
• Julia, daughter of Drusus the Younger, granddaughter of Tiberius, niece of Claudius, executed (or perhaps forced to commit suicide) at the instigation of Messalina (b. 5 AD)